“I'm a very rational person but I pray every day.” PersonsPrayingRationalAccurateI Pray Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” MadeTogetherOur LivesMonthsEightNot AfraidTime Together Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” FeelsCharacterStoriesCoursesGrowsGrowing Up Author:Emmy Rossum
“It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me.” LooksCharacterSumptuous Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” KindLittlesRealSticksRealisticBeing RealPads Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.'” ThinkingWayWritingKindRealWantedSongSoundRecordsHeardLike YouSensualRelateLush Author:Emmy Rossum
“Sometimes I vocalize in the car. It's a good way to multitask. Although fellow drivers on the road think I'm craaaazy.” ThinkingWaySometimesCarFellowsDriversGood Way Author:Emmy Rossum
“Uncommon things that are attractive in women: a gap between the teeth... a unique fashion sense.... In MEN... a unique nose... or accents.” MenFashionUniqueTeethNosesAttractiveGapsAccentsUncommon Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” IdealsMealsSomething NewHikingNew PlacesPottery Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” ThinkingWayWantGivingCharacterPerfectPleaseDirectors Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” IfsThinkingRealShotsOkayYeahScaryBridgesJumpingJumping OffJumping Off A Bridge Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” ThinkingKindJobsNextActingAssumingUnemployedSetups Author:Emmy Rossum
“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."” WantWould BeWantedBrotherMomMy MomOlder Brother Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” KindI CanMomentsGoes OnMusicalBroadwayMusic LoveI Love Music Author:Emmy Rossum
“When something looks too good to be true, it usually is.” LooksBeing TrueToo Good To Be True Author:Emmy Rossum
“I loved getting to investigate the grey areas of morality.” MoralityAreasGreyGrey Areas Author:Emmy Rossum
“When I read the scripts, I'm always so excited to see what's going to happen because it's unpredictable.” HappensScriptsExcitedUnpredictable Author:Emmy Rossum
“Being on Twitter, live tweeting some of the episodes, I get direct feedback from people.” PeopleDirectEpisodesFeedback Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” PeopleWantLooksDifferentActorsHighestSurpriseSurroundSurround YourselfCaliber Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” LooksPersonsDifferentJobsYoungActorsPressureYoung WomenPortraying Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” PeopleFirstsImportantLayersAggravation Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” StuffFireGutsTragicExterior Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” FeelsSituationAdultsAbout YourselfHow You Feel Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” IfsEnoughDreamHouseMatureOld LadyBarns Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” WellsDogCatVegan Author:Emmy Rossum
“When a really cute dog shows up on your doorstep, you can't be like, Yeah, no. You're like, Oh, yay, puppy!” ShowsDogYeahCutePuppyDoorstepCute DogReally CuteYay Author:Emmy Rossum
“Never get your girlfriend a pet that she didn't know she was getting.” KnowsGirlfriendPetYour Girlfriend Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” GivingFeelsMadePainLastsHateMonthsSixCatOkayI HateCancerSix MonthsFree Life Author:Emmy Rossum
“A friend of mine is in a long-distance relationship. They have dates on Skype. They'll both watch the same movie and...play.” LongPlayWatchesMinesDistanceLong DistanceDistance RelationshipLong Distance RelationshipSkype Author:Emmy Rossum
“My favorite episode is where the guy has a relationship with his car. An intimate and sexual and emotional relationship with his car.” GuyCarEmotionalMy FavoriteIntimateEpisodesEmotional Relationship Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” GivingMatterHouseHairHollywoodBullshitAccolades Author:Emmy Rossum
“I went to school on the Internet. I was not a cheerleader.” SchoolInternetCheerleader Author:Emmy Rossum
“I just really gravitate towards a nostalgia for a time when things were simpler. When beauty was more classical and glamorous.” NostalgiaGlamorous Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” BeautifulSimplePowerfulMusic IsErasGarlandsDori Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” IfsMenMatterSongAudienceWrittenSentimentsCapture Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” PersonsInspiredFocusedTrends Author:Emmy Rossum
“I've always loved the fashion of the '30s and everything that came with the Art Deco era - the jewelry and the glamour.” ArtFashionErasGlamourJewelryArt Deco Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” KindFashionStyleFeminineRevealingSilhouettesFashion And StyleWomanly Author:Emmy Rossum
“A lot of my hair and makeup, and everything I pull for inspiration, is [drawn] from old photographs.” InspirationHairPhotographMakeupHair And MakeupOld Photographs Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” PeopleThinkingHeartCharacterPastTermMy HeartRole Models Author:Emmy Rossum
“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!” PeopleDifferentSometimesFeelingsRealityFilmAudienceYour FaceRealistic Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” KindRealBeautifulSkinsSocial MediaAdvertisingGlamorousNighttime Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” ThinkingTryingWonderRecordsInspireSucceedDecidedScaryAcceptedHardestBeing YourselfMottoHardest ThingMy Motto Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” WonderScaryAcceptedHardestBeing YourselfHardest Thing Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” MotherRolesDaughterAdultsIntentionGirlfriend Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” BigsGrowsGrowing UpMomSiblingSingle MomDysfunctionHecticBig Families Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” StillsI CanKidsUsedBehindsClassMy FriendsLegsBirthdayCall MeGymnastics Author:Emmy Rossum
“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.” DoneUsedWatchesMomMy MomBrowsPluck Author:Emmy Rossum
