Nick Cave Quotes

When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

I just love to be able to actually build a character.

I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone.

There are so many different reasons as to why I love riding trains. But I think ultimately it's the romantic feeling of it. There's something about it that just transports me into old films.

Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.

As much as I know people love the method and what you can draw out of yourself, a lot of acting is very imaginative.

A lot of my writing is wish-fulfilment, making things the way I want them to be.

Acting is a bit of a substitute for life.

I'm interested in existential films: I love movies that console you in the same way that a person consoles a weeping child.

Acting is fascinating to me. I love unlocking the mysteries with characters and finding out what would be the most intriguing aspect of that character to exist in. Figuring out a person and getting to be a different person every day, hey - that's pretty lucky. I don't have to wake up and be Amanda if I don't feel like it. You know, that's fun.

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

Acting just seems to be a way of getting into a different place. It seems like a really creative place to be.

Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.

There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind.

You feel real good, Lana. Makes me forget everything else

He (Michael) was gone in a whisper of air, hardly making any sound at all, and Claire shivered and leaned against Shane’s solid, very human warmth. His arms went around her, and he touched his lips lightly to the back of her neck. “How can you smell this good after the kind of crappy day we’ve had?” “I sweat perfume. Like all girls.

Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.

It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned to talk?

Only when I was singing did I feel loved.

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

I like the idea that a song can be something that you can lean on, both for the songwriter and for the person who hears the song.

I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.