Karen Elson Quotes
I constantly have a devil on my shoulder telling me that what I'm doing is really horrible, and then somehow the lightning strike happens, and everything comes together.
Quotes to Explore
-
If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
-
I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
-
I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.
-
An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
-
You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
-
I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.
-
Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.
-
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
-
If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
-
Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
-
My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
-
Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
-
If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
-
I don't do a film unless it has a sword in it. And if it doesn't have a sword in it, I insist that they have one in the same room to keep me comfortable.
-
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
-
My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
-
They're not willing to admit that I've also shed blood and tears and often paid dearly for my success. This makes me feel extremely sad.
-
It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
-
And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.
-
Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There's cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There's an incredible amount.
-
I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
-
Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
-
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
-
I constantly have a devil on my shoulder telling me that what I'm doing is really horrible, and then somehow the lightning strike happens, and everything comes together.
