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Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge - your life, in a way.
There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned.
They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage.
We really love to learn and explore things.
When I auditioned for Tim Robbins for 'Cradle Will Rock,' the young girl who read with me was very young, and I said to Tim, 'I'm sorry, but I don't have enough imagination to pretend this girl is my husband!' And he said, 'Well, I'll read it with you.' Which was very nice; he was the director. And I ended up getting the part.
Women who are stronger than the society allows them to be often feel a need for something stronger than themselves, and to dissolve into it.
You can only be a monster if people let you be a monster.
I came to New York with $500 and I had to live on that, but thankfully I was taken up by photographers quickly.
I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
'Sally' is just a song that I wrote talking to my alter ego. When I write, I don't really consciously say, 'This is what I've been going through in my life, and I'm gonna put this into words.' It's just a song that I kinda went in and did. Then, listening back to it, I realized, 'I'm talking to myself.'
A lot of senior artists say that they support women, but they have a machine of people behind them telling them to be that way. l don't think it's always true and genuine.
A lot of the songs that I wrote during 'Pt. 1' and 'Pt. 2' are the first songs that I ever wrote that sounded like that. I was in this phase - a certain creative space in my life - personally and musically.
A lot of things change when one is granted success: random people pop up, and a lot of the adjustments are rough. My way of coping with them is through focusing on the things that I have accomplished and the things that are yet to come.
A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.
All of my songwriting success happened within a four month time span, and my record label deal happened within the next three months.
Authenticity can't be replicated or faked. You're either real or you're not.
Before I was working professionally, I would do YouTube covers. But as a creative person, it was really hard for me when I wasn't releasing my own music. That felt unnatural to me.
Daring is doing. Daring is asking something outrageous despite your chances of failure and rejection. Daring is going out on a limb by believing in something that no one else understands, and if all fails, daring is trying again.
Fortunately and unfortunately, what I love entails, and makes, a lot of money.
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