Alison Sudol Quotes

Alison Sudol

Profession : Actress

Birth : December 23, 1984

I love the clean elegance of cream and black.

Alison Sudol

When you're vulnerable and lost and then suddenly somebody is kind to you and gives you love and gives you tenderness and takes care of you in some way, that creates a huge indebtedness. From there, the likelihood that you're going to follow them anywhere is much higher.

Alison Sudol

I would love to show young girls that you can be complex, and that you don't have to part ways with your femininity in order to be taken seriously. But it does take more strength if you're going to be feminine, because people are going to underestimate you. I struggled with that when I was growing up.

Alison Sudol

Singing in front of people, I learned a lot more about fragility and strength.

Alison Sudol

There are so many things I've done that I'm glad I've done privately because it's so embarrassing just anyway.

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In L.A. you can be quite isolated, but in London you can ride the Tube and are right in the thick of humanity and every type of person that you can imagine is passing by.

Alison Sudol

Both with songwriting and playing a role, you're delivering the truth of something in a moment. In a lot of ways, it's the same thing.

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Whatever you're doing, you have to do it 100 percent; you have to be totally present.

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Fear seems like it's this physical thing - some monster - but it's just energy.

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I did a couple auditions, failed miserably, was about to give up, and booked 'Transparent.'

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Women are often written as one thing - the ingenue or the vamp - but real women are many things.

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I always try to scour local vintage shops and antique stores as much as I can while I'm on the road - it's my version of hunting for buried treasure.

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I love watching people.

Alison Sudol

If you're going to learn how to ride a bike as an adult, do it somewhere where there's no people in the middle of the countryside. Don't do it where people are born on bikes basically.

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Pines' is a different kind of album for me. It was a different approach, everything about it, I just went at it as if I had never made a record before basically.

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Stories have always been incredibly comforting and can help illuminate things that are hard to understand other wise.

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I think something that is never really spoken about is the learning process of making records - I made my first record at twenty one and learned so much about record making from that before making 'Bomb In A Birdcage' a couple of years later.

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I was so afraid of being lumped into this category of female actresses trying to sing.

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I have an affinity for a lot of things that are kind of fairy-tale-ish and bookish.

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I felt brave when I sang and could put into lyrics what I couldn't tell anybody else.

Alison Sudol