Emmy Rossum Quotes:

I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.

Topics: Thinking, Parent, Want

When I was in school, I got there on the first day and everyone had long, blonde, straight hair, and I had short, dark, curly hair. I immediately felt I didn't fit in and started growing my hair. But I've learned that I'm only happy when I am truly me and feel comfortable and confident in myself.

source: - Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 30, 2007.

Topics: School, Dark, Curly Hair, Straight Hair

Being yourself is one of the hardest thing because it's scary you always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are.

source: - Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. November 30, 2007.

Topics: Being Yourself, Scary, Wonder

Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.

Topics: Valleys, World, Ends, Peaks And Valleys

We like it to be realistic but not real, but I wear something I call the 'vag pad,' it's kind of a little triangular panty liner that you stick to you ...

source: - "Emmy Rossum Explains Sex Scenes On ‘Chelsea Lately’". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2011.

Topics: Real, Littles, Pads

I don't really live my life in the media spotlight. People don't know that much really about me or what I think.

Topics: Thinking, Media, People

I like René Descartes' theory about a ball of wax. You can change its form from solid to liquid, but it's still the same ball of wax. With acting, you are the same person in a different form. You can only be what you know, and you only truly know yourself.

Topics: Acting, Different, Balls

I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day and feel that I did the best job I could and feel proud, that's what will satisfy me.

Topics: Jobs, The End Of The Day, Proud

It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me.

Topics: Character, Looks, Sumptuous

I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.

Topics: Girl, Sexy, Eye, Public Eye

I can be naked with the lights on.

Topics: Light, Naked

I think of Gisele Bundchen to get myself on the treadmill

Topics: Thinking, Treadmills

I think I kind of came out of the womb singing. I think I was, like, born at the hospital, and, you know, popped out, and was singing. ... I'm not sure really how it happened. I can't remember a time when I wasn't singing, or banging a beat on the dinner table.

Topics: Thinking, Singing, Tables, Dinner Table

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

Topics: Growing Up, Character, Stories

I'm a very rational person but I pray every day.

Topics: Praying, Rational, Accurate

Here we spent so much time together - eight months of our lives almost - and it was so great because we all got so close and that really made us not afraid to improve with each other.

Topics: Eight, Together, Months, Time Together

Men only need two things - grilled cheese and sex,

Topics: Sex, Men, Two, Grilled Cheese

Hey @giseleofficial, I feel ya girl. #kidding #fakebaby #soymilk #shameless

Topics: Girl, Hey, Shameless

I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that I've had from when I was little.

Topics: People, Trying, Littles

It wasn't my intention in going after this part but I suppose now I do. The adult roles are a lot meatier - you're not always just the daughter or the girlfriend or whatever.

Topics: Daughter, Mother, Girlfriend

I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family; it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved.

Topics: Mom, Growing Up, Sibling, Hectic

I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.

Topics: Birthday, Kids, Gymnastics

I've never had my brows done - I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that's how I learned.

Topics: Mom, Watches, Done

Guys usually like a very natural look. I think it's bad idea to wear a strong lip on a first date - or for the first few dates. I'm always too nervous he'll kiss it off - if I'm lucky enough to get a kiss! I also think soft, sexy hair is important.

Topics: Sexy, Strong, Kissing, First Date, Natural Look

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.

Topics: Being Yourself, Thinking, Scary

I had classical training but I don't consider myself an opera singer though.

Topics: Training, Opera, Singers, Opera Singers

It's the best feeling when you wake up and it's warm and cozy, and you don't have to go to work.

Topics: Feelings, Wake Up, Cozy

I'd say that my musical influences are anywhere from pop-rock electronica, new age and classical. But I think that specifically, bands - I love Jem, I love Sigur Ross, I love David Gray, I love Elliot Smith... a lot of different people. But I don't find lyrical inspiration from anybody.

Topics: Inspiration, Thinking, Rocks, Musical Influence

I've learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I've never taken a job for the money.

Topics: Meaningful, Jobs, Taken

She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.

Topics: Lonely, Heart, People

I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.

Topics: Competition, Singing, Fierce

When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.

source: - "'Shameless' star Emmy Rossum discusses Fiona's downward spiral". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. March 8, 2014.

Topics: Looks, Too Good To Be True, Being True

Life can be very funny and very tragic. Everyone has stuff that they've been through that makes up whatever fire it is that they have in their gut, but nobody goes around wearing that as their outmost exterior, all the time.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Fire, Stuff, Tragic

I just really gravitate towards a nostalgia for a time when things were simpler. When beauty was more classical and glamorous.

source: - Source: www.elle.com

Topics: Nostalgia, Glamorous

In terms of the characters, I definitely do look for somebody that I think people can learn from and I can learn from too. In one way or another, by the fact that they are a role or by that fact that they aren't a role model. I feel like I was attracted to the past few characters that I've played, because they have an element that really touched my heart.

source: - Source: www.movieweb.com

Topics: Heart, Character, Past

I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment is there, it captures the audience.

source: - Source: www.elle.com

Topics: Song, Men, Matter

I've never been a person who focused on trends. I'm influenced and inspired by trends, but I don't always subscribe to them.

source: - Source: www.elle.com

Topics: Trends, Inspired, Persons

A friend of mine is in a long-distance relationship. They have dates on Skype. They'll both watch the same movie and...play.

source: - Source: www.esquire.com

Topics: Long Distance Relationship, Play, Skype

I went to school on the Internet. I was not a cheerleader.

source: - Source: www.esquire.com

Topics: School, Cheerleader, Internet

With social media and advertising and filters and FaceTune-ing it's hard to even to know what's real and what's not. So to see an image of a woman where you can actually see her face and her skin texture and she's still polished and beautiful or even glamorous with a nighttime look, but it still feels like a real person. I feel like that's the kind of beauty I want to applaud and align myself with.

source: - Source: www.elle.com

Topics: Beautiful, Real, Skins

A lot of my hair and makeup, and everything I pull for inspiration, is [drawn] from old photographs.

source: - Source: www.elle.com

Topics: Inspiration, Makeup, Hair, Old Photographs, Hair And Makeup

Uncommon things that are attractive in women: a gap between the teeth... a unique fashion sense.... In MEN... a unique nose... or accents.

source: - Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 05, 2013.

Topics: Fashion, Unique, Men

All the Hollywood bullshit and accolades and money really doesn't matter. It just gives you a slightly nicer house and slightly nicer food and slightly shinier hair.

source: - Source: www.esquire.com

Topics: Hair, Giving, Bullshit, Accolades

As an actor, you always look for things that will stretch you and that are different than you are, so that you can surprise yourself, and you want to surround yourself with the highest caliber of people that will make you look good.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: People, Different, Looks

I always think I could do better. I always think that something could be more perfect, but I think that that's just within my nature. I think I want to please a director, I want to give my everything and find every which way I could have burrowed further into a character.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Character, Thinking, Giving

Sometimes I vocalize in the car. It's a good way to multitask. Although fellow drivers on the road think I'm craaaazy.

Topics: Thinking, Car, Way

I've always loved the fashion of the '30s and everything that came with the Art Deco era - the jewelry and the glamour.

source: - Source: www.elle.com

Topics: Fashion, Art, Eras, Art Deco

My favorite episode is where the guy has a relationship with his car. An intimate and sexual and emotional relationship with his car.

source: - Source: www.esquire.com

Topics: Emotional, Car, Guy, Emotional Relationship

I love to create and I love to be challenged and I love to do things that are scary, so I think I would probably think about jumping off a bridge if somebody told me that's going to make that shot real great. I'd be like, "Okay, here we go, let's do it." Like, yeah.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Real, Thinking, Jumping, Jumping Off, Jumping Off A Bridge

I feel like, as an adult, a lot of how you feel about yourself and what your inner workings are can be revealed in a sexual situation.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Adults, How You Feel, About Yourself

I think acting is a job where you're always unemployed. You're always looking for the next job, so I assume that it's like other jobs that are with that same kind of setup.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Jobs, Thinking, Acting

When a really cute dog shows up on your doorstep, you can't be like, Yeah, no. You're like, Oh, yay, puppy!

source: - Source: www.esquire.com

Topics: Cute, Dog, Yay, Really Cute, Doorstep

Ideal date is doing something new, either hiking a new place I've not been, or learning something weird and new like pottery.... and then a meal.

Topics: Hiking, Meals, Pottery

Being on Twitter, live tweeting some of the episodes, I get direct feedback from people.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: People, Feedback, Episodes

When I read the scripts, I'm always so excited to see what's going to happen because it's unpredictable.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Scripts, Excited, Unpredictable

I loved getting to investigate the grey areas of morality.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Morality, Grey Areas, Grey

I'm an actor, so I love to be degraded!

source: - "'Shameless' star Emmy Rossum discusses Fiona's downward spiral". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. March 8, 2014.

Topics: Actors

I love the silhouettes of the '50s that were feminine and womanly without being too revealing. I've always gravitated towards that kind of sense of style and fashion.

source: - Source: www.elle.com

Topics: Fashion, Style, Silhouettes, Womanly

I love music. I'd love to go on Broadway and do a musical there. I just like to kind of go with whatever's inspiring at the moment, and kind of follow that as far as I can.

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Musical, Goes On, Broadway

I always wanted an older brother. That was my thing. My mom would be like, "What do you want for your birthday?" I'd be like, "I want an older brother."

source: - Source: www.pbs.org

Topics: Mom, Brother, Would Be

Theater is such a different ballgame than film. And that's really why I stayed in film, because I really love the reality of connecting with your own feelings, and really putting that across in a realistic way. In film, the smallest muscular movements in your face, that are produced just by sheer feelings, you're not controlling them in anyway, can be seen by people in the audience because your face is sometimes, frighteningly, 40 feet wide!

source: - Source: www.movieweb.com

Topics: Reality, People, Feelings

I hate cats. But this cancer cat made me feel bad, so I was like, Okay, I'll take her back to L. A. and give her her last six months of pain-free life.

source: - Source: www.esquire.com

Topics: Pain, Hate, Cancer, Free Life

Never get your girlfriend a pet that she didn't know she was getting.

source: - Source: www.esquire.com

Topics: Girlfriend, Pet, Your Girlfriend

I have a dog as well, and I'm not a vegan or anything. But I needlepoint and I have a cat, so it's not boding well.

source: - Source: www.esquire.com

Topics: Dog, Cat, Vegan

I love Judy Garland, I love Doris Day, I love Marilyn Monroe. I love everything that comes from that era. The music is just beautiful and powerful - and simple. That's what makes it so great.

source: - Source: www.elle.com

Topics: Beautiful, Powerful, Simple, Garlands, Dori

That's my dream to be old enough and mature enough that I won't be considered an "old lady" if I have a house with a barn. Because I already do needlepoint.

source: - Source: www.esquire.com

Topics: Dream, House, Barns

A lot of people would wear anger, depression or aggravation as their first layer, and they don't. They very much understand what's really important in life.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Aggravation, People, Important

As an actor, and especially as a young woman, there's so much pressure to look good all the time and it really detracts from what our job really is about, which is portraying a different person.

source: - Source: collider.com

Topics: Jobs, Different, Looks

I like René Descartes' theory about a ball of wax. You can change its form from solid to liquid, but it's still the same ball of wax. With acting, you are the same person in a different form. You can only be what you know, and you only truly know yourself.

source: - Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Topics: Acting, Different, Balls

Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't really relate to them. And I think that I write songs that sound fresh and sensual in kind of a layered, lush way. But I also think that they are real, and that's why I wanted to call the record 'Inside Out.'

source: - "15 Questions With Emmy Rossum". Interview with Miranda Lightstone, www.askmen.com.

Topics: Song, Real, Writing, Lush