Top 96 Quotes & Sayings by Alison Sudol - Page 2

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

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.

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

Because I grew up around the reality and heartbreak of acting, I didn't want to have anything to do with it.

I was a teenager with a lot of strangeness in me that I didn't know how to express. I was trying hard on the outside to be very normal and fit in, but inside I was a big weirdo. Thank God that little weirdo persisted, otherwise I would be so sad.

I think everyone has their own path.

I want to have a long career, so I'm fine with it growing slowly.

I don't love my speaking voice, frequently - but I think that we need music, and when a person sings, those kind of vibrations go through your body, it's amplified in the room. It goes through everyone else's body, too.

To me, the making of art and experiences around that are the biggest part to me.

I look to films to learn and to see different avenues that you can take in growing up.

I was worried that acting would somehow ruin any credibility I had as a musician.

I don't like to yell.

My parents were acting teachers, but I was a bookworm who was passionate about music.

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

My heart gets tight and it's almost like my soul gets congested if I'm not making music.

Los Angeles has got its own distinct feel, and it's very contrary to the music that I write and the pictures I see in my head: no evergreens, no fog, no rain days.

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

Whenever you meet another woman, you immediately revert to you five-year-old self thinking, 'do you want to be my friend. Can I keep you?'

It's hard to constantly delve into your psyche and unearth these deep and often painful feelings and hold them out in front of people and say, 'Here's the most vulnerable part of me.'

I'm, like, the most insane Wes Anderson fan - his films are pretty much my inner landscapes. I just love him to pieces.

With music, every decision you make is a reflection on who you are - I'll obsess over the color palette for a record and the promo materials. With acting, it's not just your ideas. You're one part of a working machine.

I lived in Washington from when I was born to when I was 5.

I think you can do a lot with lyrics and melody.

Even when my every inclination is to be otherwise, I don't want to live my life on the dark side of things. Sometimes that takes a little bit of effort, and when that's the case music is the way that I totally make sense of things.

I can be very pessimistic and very dark, but there is also a part of me that's very determinedly optimistic.

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

I love watching people.

Percussion is so good for me!

I found movies to be such a beautiful escape.

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.

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

It's different from music because music is like going deep down into soul, like scooping out all the difficult, beautiful, messy stuff and putting it into songs. Writing is more like playing for me.

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.

I think I've seen 'Sleepless in Seattle' like 40 times... I've seen 'Harold and Maude' like 50 times probably.

Singing has an impact on the human body.

I want you to feel in 'Riversong' like you're floating down a river on your back, and you're looking at the stars, and everything is incredibly still and peaceful.