Brie Larson Quotes

I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits.

I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful.

I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.

It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school. For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.

Sometimes I laugh with my parents, and sometimes I yell at them, and both are therapeutic.

I usually get my lyrics when I let my mind wander, when you're not really awake, but not yet fully asleep. I keep an open notebook by my bed and then just write whatever comes to me.

It's very scary to allow the world to see you.

I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from "Alice in Wonderland," so we've got some strange names in our family.

I want more awareness of humanity in this world.

I'm so used to swimming with the piranhas. And they're really not that bad.

Surrounding myself with women of different backgrounds and on different paths and in different stages of their lives has become so valuable to me.

I feel like the movie is reminding people of who they are, which is what I think all great art does.

I think the interesting aspect of life is that you're always sort of in the middle. You're never the youngest and you're never the oldest.

I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.

Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because it's so foreign and unknown.

I think that usually I'm just drawn to something that's different from something that I've done previously. Whatever makes me feel something. Whatever makes me excited and connected to it.

I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.

I think more things are becoming socially acceptable. I think that just by having more media, whether that's TV or Internet, we're able to see more things.

I think it starts to feel really redundant when you start to do something the same way over and over again. I don't think it's good to become so dependent on a certain writing process.

I only write about stuff I know. I don't have a lot of experience with boys and stuff so I write a lot of songs about interesting and strange subjects that people wouldn't write songs about.

I didn't go to prom - I was homeschooled.

I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that.

I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.

Clothing totally changes my perception of how I feel about myself depending on what it is that I'm wearing.

It [the film industry] is not a glamorous industry. It's really, really hard, and you get told all the time, "You're not this, you're not that," and so you have to find a center.

I'm looking for something to laugh over. After long enough, your body just needs to keep the hydration. You can't keep crying it out.

I have a lot of different influences. Everything from Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, The Clash, Kanye West - just a lot of different artists.

I was home-schooled 'cause I wanted to be an actor. I would spend all day watching movies, trying to get through calculus.

I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand opportunity to figure yourself out and to figure out what you wanted.

Sometimes you pick up on the myth and it's just an accident. I think it comes naturally out of people, and some people are aware of it.

I think that, especially as the kids are growing up, they have so much stuff going on in their own lives, they don't really know how much they're looking at their mom as the big problem

Whenever you want something that you're not going to get, suddenly the whiney 3-year-old comes out in you.

You know how it is when you put on your best friend's shirt. You feel weird, even if everyone tells you that it looks good. You know that it isn't right.

I think that fashion is very important for me and I think that it's a wonderful means of self-expression.

We're in a different time right now, and I think we're ready to see a different type of female hero.

I really love both acting and singing equally.

I don't take roles that are 'just another role.' I'm interested in learning more about myself and about humanity. So it should change you by the time it's done.

Each step of the way, I'm learning. When I leave an interview, I learn whether I feel, 'Oh, that was nice, ' or that made me feel like a little piece of me was taken.

I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge.

As I have had to meet different challenges, I realize I am coming into myself, and whatever I'm wearing is another chance for me to explore a new version of myself.

To find the courage to do what I want to do for myself has been hard.

I love discussing social issues, but I'm not interested in scare tactics. I believe there is a way to bring awareness in tandem with forgiveness and love.

We had very few things. I had a couple pairs of jeans, a couple shirts. And same with my mom and sister. I think my sister had, like, two toys. We were living off of instant noodles.

When I was seven, I had been very vocal about wanting to be an actor. And my mom decided that we would try it out for a couple weeks and come to L.A. from Sacramento.

I didn't realise how hard it was to be a mom and keep it all together.

I was born in Sacramento but moved to Los Angeles with my mom and my little sister when I was seven.