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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Alison Sudol is an American actress, singer, songwriter and music video director. She is known as the singer A Fine Frenzy, and for her role as Queenie Goldstein in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016), as well as its sequels The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022). Her music has been featured in numerous television shows and movies.
There's something about a long, high-waisted skirt and little, buttoned blouse that I really love.
How many women have been in a mental institution because they've been called crazy when they're just not allowed to be honest or be who they are?
I was a very quiet kid who didn't feel normal being outgoing and running around, so all the beauty that was in my life, I found in books. Books that made me think and transported me into a different world.
I do love to dance, and that's fun, but I will never stop writing my quiet, sensitive songs.
I want to find more ways of planting trees and helping fight against deforestation.
If you're gonna steal from somebody, why not Shakespeare?
I can Hula-Hoop and read a book at the same time.
My architectural education is way, way incomplete, but if you're in a beautifully designed space, it can change the way you see and the way you feel. The same way great movies and great music can immerse you, so can a space.
I actually wanted to be an architect when I was a kid, but I did a solid geometry course where we had to build a geodesic dome out of toothpicks, and mine came out looking like an alien space station. I threw it against a wall and gave up.
I love doing free shows because then anyone can come.
I'm a terrible parallel parker.
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.
I firmly believe in real-life fairy tales.
Sometimes we get so focused on the results that we miss doing it - we miss the adventure of being in the midst of something because we're looking too far ahead.
You won't find me out in a club. I'm a bit unruly, in my own way.
It seems to me, personally, that the things that are great during Christmastime are magnified. Like everything is that much better. Everything is magical and spectacular. The things that are wrong or sad are just so much more wrong or sad.
I have a huge love for architecture.
There are so many things I've done that I'm glad I've done privately because it's so embarrassing just anyway.
In my mind, I'm still that kid who gets affected by other people's music.
I really listened to a lot of oldies. I didn't really listen to anything that was modern until I was 11 or 12.
I felt I had to choose between being pretty or smart or athletic, and stick to it because if you try to do more than one, you have nowhere to belong. Then music was a boy's world and a lot of times men assumed I didn't know what I was doing because I was young and female.
I'm a big cinephile. Love, love, love films.
As a person life has always been a bit of a challenge for me and I have spent so much of my early years in fear and I think that making music makes me want to be more courageous.
Besides a princess and a ballerina and a firefighter and a vet, I think I wanted to be an artist.
I felt brave when I sang and could put into lyrics what I couldn't tell anybody else.
I grew up listening to a lot of classic jazz, and stuff like The Beatles, and old Motown stuff, and a lot of classical music. I just loved all of that.
I just love the holidays so much.
As a musician, you kinda get used to failure in life, and then when things actually start succeeding, it's a very interesting feeling.
Women are often written as one thing - the ingenue or the vamp - but real women are many things.
I won't do the same thing over and over again.
Whether it's a photograph or a piece of clothing, a leather bag or a film, I tend to gravitate towards simple, beautifully made, quietly lovely things. They make me happy.
I'm learning to communicate honestly and knock it off with the hiding.
A boy I adored when I was 19 gave me the 'Emigrante' album by Orishas. Definitely not my normal taste, but I still kind of love it.
I love the clean elegance of cream and black.
I'm just really not good at being like anybody else or writing like anybody else.
I always wanted to be an artist of some sort and I was really shy growing up, so performing didn't really seem like a natural choice, but whenever I got on stage to do something I felt more comfortable than I did in real life.
It's fun to play for the 12- and 13-year-olds. The looks on their faces are amazing. Young kids don't have social anxieties. They'll yell things out and sing loudly.
I think I had a lot of fear, even when I was really young, that I was going to be seen as something that I didn't want to be. I didn't really know how to be myself well enough to be comfortable being someone else.
I feel like for me my happiest moments are tinged with the awareness that there's sadness on the flipside of the coin.
Especially growing up in Los Angeles, there's just a very different mind-set than my own. There's no 'Romeo and Juliet' in Los Angeles. There's 'Laguna Beach.'
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.
The song 'Almost Lover' is very important to me, because when I wrote it, I threw everything away. That kind of set the bar as a writer, as a singer, as a person.
Stories have always been incredibly comforting and can help illuminate things that are hard to understand other wise.
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.
When I am going through something monumental or difficult in my life it is hard to look at it as it is because it is too much.
I have all sorts of weird albums that people have given me lying around the house.
There are two things I love about Temescal. One is the sense of space that you get when you get to the top. You can see for ages. You can see the ocean spread out before you, but you also feel like you're in the mountains. And second is the smell of it, which I love most when I've been traveling a long time.
I was in a commercial when I was three. My godfather was a director and a producer of commercials. He took me in along with his kids and I couldn't remember my lines. I giggled my way through the commercial and they kept it.
Once one goal is checked off, you have to up the ante just to keep yourself sane.
I've had a lot of experience with not allowing myself to experience certain emotions, like anger and confidence, and with acting you're in this space where it's safe to fully go there.
Coldplay's music is so uplifting but not cheesy. You listen to it and you're taken away. It's so honest. There's kindness to their music.
I mean, I knew that one day I'd do something writing-oriented as soon as I started writing. But when I started singing, I was determined to make those two work together, so I just worked at it until I started making stuff that sounded like music.
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.
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.
If I'm in a social situation where I'm triggered, I go into the bathroom and move and shake and breathe.
When you have goals and dreams and things that you've been wanting your whole life, and then they actually start happening and you start checking things off your list, it's like, whaaat? Huhhh?
I want to go into the margins, into those moments where there's snot hanging out of your nose and things aren't cute and you're not pretty. I'm all for messy. That's what I want to explore.
There's a certain amount of pressure that you get from being a popular artist, and I think in the past I put a lot of pressure on myself, too. But I always knew that writing hits wasn't really my strong suit.
I do consider myself an actress now. I think 'Dig' and 'Transparent' have given me the confidence.