Brie Larson Quotes

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Brie Larson

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 1, 1989

When what you do is play characters every day, all day, I wasn't really interested in playing a pop star on the weekends.

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

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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.

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I love exploring the characters that I play, but the reason I sign on for something isn't the details of the story but the universal message.

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I find that the projects I enjoy signing up to at the moment are with a director who's interested in the script - isn't completely sure what the movie is and isn't concerned about it. He's just interested in going on the journey and discovering it.

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I was not a child star. I was more like a young auditioner.

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My life is scheduled to the minute. I used to be notoriously hard to get a hold of. But now, it would be irresponsible for me to say, 'I'm not checking my phone.'

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I used to dislike it, but now I like it more and more, feeling small. I like feeling like a little speck.

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For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school.

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The moments that I feel a huge sense of accomplishment are actually the smaller moments, not really the bigger ones, the televised ones.

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My number-one website is brainpickings.org. It opens you up to different authors and gives insights into the literary world. Reading about the love letters novelist Vladimir Nabokov wrote to his wife Vera blew my mind. Fascinating.

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

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For the most part, I've stayed as far away as possible from high school movies. I just don't find them to be that relatable to everybody? They become like this: 'Look at that period of time. Isn't that interesting?'

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My identity was tangled up in the parts that I had played since I was a child. I would go through my closet and only see audition clothes: Brie looking older, Brie looking '60s, Brie looking '40s, Brie looking younger in the future.

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I'm a bit of a lurker on Reddit.

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I found I could perform in front of 200 people, but I would still feel nervous having a one-on-one conversation.

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I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.

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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.

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The constant is always mythologies and the very first stories that we have. All of the movies that last, that you return to, the movies that struck you as a kid and continue to open up to you 10 years later and 10 years after that - those are the movies I want to make. Those things are eternal.

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

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