Quotes About Expression

Acting is about finding truth and finding the way to convey the truth.

Do whatever it takes to convey your essential self.

Many writers today are wanderers. There is not only an unhousedness in language - how to convey, to say nothing of converge - but an unhousedness of place.

There's a lot of fashion that I don't respond to and I just walk on. I always look for things that make me happy, and in my work, all I'm doing is trying to convey that joy. Fashion should always be fun.

I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey my own experience as an individual to the world.

When I am in the sound booth, I am trying to convey as much as I can through just my voice.

I digress a lot - it's how I experience the world. I would like to write in a way that will convey that to the reader, but also I need clarity.

The thing that makes me want to write a piece of music is having something to talk about, you know? Something I want to get across. Because I'm a composer, music is my first language, and that's what I reach for when I want to convey something.

I love street and I love ballet and I love to convey what I can.

Some actors merely have to appear before the camera and they are able to convey exactly what the director wants.

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

I was forced to say, 'I will not censor the Internet.' But I was never convinced.

I think that's how any actor would make their performance convincing: by bringing an element of themselves into the character.

Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.

I feel more comfortable in men's clothing, and I'm a lot of more convincing as a boy than as a gendered female. But with women's clothing, I feel more empowered.

Every once in a while, I want to get up and cook.

I don't want to talk too much about the nitty-gritty of writing. It's rather like a pressure cooker with a certain amount of pressure in it - the more you let out, the less you cook.

I love food. I'm not a great cook, but I love to cook, and I like how different it is from writing.

Some people are just born to cook and talk.

I think every young cook wants to write a book.

I love to cook.

As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.

I never cook from cookbooks.