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. – Emmy Rossum
She’s lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all. – Emmy Rossum
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. – Emmy Rossum
I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me. – Emmy Rossum
I never walk into the studio and say, I’m going to write a song called… ‘X’ or called ‘Slow Me Down.’ I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of… I call it brain vomit. It’s kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I’m unabashedly just writing it down. – Emmy Rossum
I don’t really live my life in the media spotlight. People don’t know that much really about me or what I think. – 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. – Emmy Rossum
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. – Emmy Rossum
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. – Emmy Rossum
I’ve learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because I’ve never taken a job for the money. – Emmy Rossum
If I can’t find a project that I’m really interested in, I’ll just go back to college where I’ve been studying art history and French. I’m also going to study English and philosophy – the whole curriculum! – 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. – 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. – Emmy Rossum
It is very grand and sumptuous and awesome to look at but it was really about the characters for me. – Emmy Rossum
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. – Emmy Rossum
I’ve been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I’m trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it. – Emmy Rossum
I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met. – 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. – 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. – Emmy Rossum
It’s the best feeling when you wake up and it’s warm and cozy, and you don’t have to go to work. – Emmy Rossum
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. – 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.’ – Emmy Rossum
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. – Emmy Rossum
