I was homeschooled, was always very close with my mom, and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw Missy fits. Furthermore, I was the type of person that would show a PowerPoint presentation about why I should do something versus crying and screaming over it.

— Brie Larson

I wasn't perfect and didn't have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape-shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie.

— Brie Larson

I won't do things for money. I can't. So I'll hold out and say, in my mind, 'There's a really cool diner down the street from my house. They make perfect pancakes; I'd be happy doing that.'

— Brie Larson

Maybe you're not perfect, but you're willing to actually look at yourself and take some kind of accountability. That's a change. It might not mean that you can turn everything around, but I think there's something incredibly hopeful about that.

— Brie Larson

The cool thing about designers is they have very specific points of view, and because my inspiration is always changing, it's easy to go, 'This feels right.' But just because I wear fancy dresses on weekends doesn't mean in my heart of hearts I'm not a jean and T-shirt person.

— Brie Larson

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.

— Brie Larson

There is so much to be gained from adulthood! Feelings just become so much deeper. The feeling of sadness and loss is much deeper than when you were a kid, but the feelings of love and happiness have also so much more dimension when you get older... That is what's so hard and exciting about being a human being.

— Brie Larson

There were times my mom and I butted heads - over my curfew, over something like that. Whenever we would hit these moments of emotional backfire, she would say, 'You just don't understand what it's like to be a mother... I could never handle losing you.' I was like, 'OK, but just, like, chill out.'

— Brie Larson

To find the courage to do what I want to do for myself has been hard.

— Brie Larson

We had very few things. I had a couple pairs of jeans, a couple shirts. And same with my mom and sister. I think my sister had, like, two toys. We were living off of instant noodles.

— Brie Larson