Brie Larson

You could put me on a stage in front of 100 people, and I could do a tap dance, but one-on-one was really difficult for me. And it took me most of my life to learn how to work with that anxiety, to embrace and be comfortable with it. ”

The hardest pill for me to swallow has been receiving recognition, getting dressed up, going to events. That's the part that has always terrified me. You can see dozens of photos where I have zero hair and makeup and I'm wearing my own jeans and T-shirt, because I was not that interested in that side of it. ”

Basmati Blues' deals with a great social issue, GMOs, but it's told through love and song and dance. ”

The entire process of making a movie is sort of blind trust because, otherwise, all of it just doesn't make any sense: the fact that we can create any sense of reality or emotion given the arbitrariness of a day. ”

I was not a child star. I was more like a young auditioner. ”

I think seeing the love between a mother and child is something we can all really relate to. You can remember it from your own childhood perspective. ”

For me, 'Room' is an opportunity to relive an aspect of my childhood that I hadn't put a ton of thought into. ”

My parents called me the WB frog. Because when I was onstage, I would do this whole song and dance, but if my parents had a family friend over, I would just go hide in the bedroom. ”

I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family. ”

I've become more comfortable as time has gone on with saying goodbye because... I've been having so many conversations about the cyclical nature of life. It just keeps going. ”