Tilda Swinton famous quotes

05-17-2025

I believe that all great art holds the power to dissolve things: time, distance, difference, injustice, alienation, despair. I believe that all great art holds the power to mend things: join, comfort, inspire hope in fellowship, reconcile us to our selves. Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.
-- Tilda Swinton

#Art #Distance #Believe
The people I'm working with tend to be people I know, who are my friends, and I like hanging out with them. There's nothing better than making a long-term project with your friends. It's just dreamy.
-- Tilda Swinton

#Long #People #Projects
Art is good for my soul precisely because it reminds me that we have souls in the first place.
-- Tilda Swinton

#Art #Soul #Firsts
I never quite understand the way society decides who is beautiful and who is not. But an open face and a capacity for kindness always feel like reliable signifiers to me.
-- Tilda Swinton

#Beautiful #Kindness #Never Quit
If we don't accept loneliness, then capitalism wins hands down. Because capitalism is all about trying to convince people that you can distract yourself, that you can make it better. And it ain't true.
-- Tilda Swinton

#Loneliness #Winning #Hands
Years ago, when James Bulger was murdered, every newspaper front page was talking about evil. At that point, having suppressed it for years, I remembered when I was four or five, I tried to kill my own brother.
-- Tilda Swinton

#Brother #Talking #Years
I would rather be handsome for an hour than pretty for a week.
-- Tilda Swinton

#Women #Handsome #Week
This self-obsession is a waste of living. It could be spent on surviving things, appreciating nature, nurturing kindness and friendship, and dancing.
-- Tilda Swinton

#Meaningful #Kindness #Self
It was an amazing performer. Very temperamental, it spent a lot of time in its trailer.
-- Tilda Swinton

#Trailers #Temperament #Performers
I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival.
-- Tilda Swinton

#Soldier #Survival #Chance
I follow my nose. Itâ€™s as simple as that.
-- Tilda Swinton

#Simple #Noses
I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.
-- Tilda Swinton

#Kindness #People #Stupidity
I always think of the word 'abandonment' when I think of the character.
-- Tilda Swinton

#Character #Thinking #Abandonment
It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.
-- Tilda Swinton

#Real #Comfort #Aliens
I'm from the same planet as David Bowie.
-- Tilda Swinton

#Bowie #Planets
How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?
-- Tilda Swinton

#People #Expectations #Identity
Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own. What is any life without the pursuit of a dream?
-- Tilda Swinton

#Dream #Adventure #Vision
I remember noticing, when I had my babies, how much I liked them, and not just loved them, but I was really into them. I knew I was going to be curious about them, and up for the mayhem ahead.
-- Tilda Swinton

#Baby #Motherhood #Remember
Faith is in the eye of the beholder.
-- Tilda Swinton

#Faith #Eye #Beholder

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