Emilie de Ravin's Quotes

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

I always try and take something from each job.

I do love children, but I don't really talk about that in auditions.

I don't know if I really watched any Disney animation as a kid.

I get recognised, but I'm not the sort of person who frequents popular clubs. I try to keep out of that.

I love New York. I've always loved New York.

I think the simpler it is when you have a crazy character to play is almost more creepy and interesting.

I'm kind of a homebody. I like to sit at home and watch movies and eat good food.

If you're getting ready to do a really emotional scene then, right before it, you're probably not going to be outside playing basketball.

I'd like to play with a period piece. Playing a girl next door in 2010 is so different from playing one in 1950, the way you talk, walk, dress, relationships. It's really fun studying all that.

Love is such an objective thing. I mean, I can say I love my family, or I love my Diet Coke. So I guess, in different ways, yeah, I do believe in love.

My earliest memory is seeing Michael Jackson in Melbourne with my sister when I was about ten. I still have this souvenir stick with a glove that would light up and make a peace sign in a bunch of different colors. I'm so happy my mom didn't throw that out.

I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba - Lana Del Rey reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

When I got to New York City when I was 18, I started playing in clubs in Brooklyn - I have good friends and devoted fans on the underground scene, but we were playing for each other at that point - and that was it.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.