Evan Rachel Wood Quotes

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

I feel there's something about becoming a character that helps people understand themselves.

I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.

I write to make some sense of things that confuse me. The mechanics of my own heart are the most confusing I know about - and don't know about - and other people's are a bit confusing, too.

If I would have not been in films, I would have become an anti-social element.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.

I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

I'm insatiably curious about human nature.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

We're constantly morphing into different outward manifestations of ourselves. That's what I find curious about people.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.

I think acting can bring you closer to yourself and help you understand other people.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.

I guess I'm just an open-hearted, fair, good person. I try to encourage people to be their best and look inside themselves and find out what they are passionate about and expand on that and enjoy life.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

I didn't want to repeat my mistakes so I stopped, took some time out and started having therapy. My songs were bringing up feelings inside of me I didn't really understand, so I wanted to understand where they were coming from to help me be a better person and a better songwriter.

I'm not sure why working at a homeless shelter made sense to me, except that I needed to immerse myself in some sort of larger real-life situation to get me out of the cage of my mind, in some ways.