32 Quotes by Lola Kirke

I started playing music when I was 18. My heart was just broken so badly that I decided that I really wanted to start playing music. It felt like the only thing that I could do in response to that. And I've been playing ever since.

I realized that I really didn't like the sound of the ukulele so much so I started playing the guitar.

I love acting so much, but listening to music and making music has been the greatest savior for me.

When I have no idea what to do with how I'm feeling, I generally make a song out of it.

As soon as I saw myself beginning to be way too comfortable on a film set or TV set, and not stimulated by it the way that I had been that had brought me to want to be there professionally and creatively, was the moment that I started getting really, really sad. I decided, "Okay, I just want to actually be here, how can I make this be interesting for me?"

You don't have that interaction with the audience when you're acting for film; you're kind of acting in a vacuum. You're acting for a disinterested grip who just wants to reply to his wife about what time he'll be home for dinner. Everyone else on a film set is also there because they're paid to be there. They're not there because they're passionate about what you do necessarily.

I'm going to be a better actor, or I'm going to try to be a better actor. I'm going to try to be a better musician. I'm going to be an artist instead of just this one thing.

The idea of choosing something that you want to be, that you identify as, at a young age and pursuing that without question - for me that was acting.

Aligning my music with something that feels morally and politically passionate to me feels good.