Quotes About Expression

I always thought on my own that what is a huge part of being an actor, or what made me a better actor, was just really living life. Not being closed in on life, but being more open to experiences and to people and taking risks and exposing yourself to things.

I'm not a risk-taker; that's probably why I write - because when you're easily bored, but you don't like taking risks, you end up doing it all in your head.

What I really like doing is taking risks, musically.

I'm not winning any modeling awards, I'm not a Rhodes Scholar, but I genuinely feel that if you're taking time out of your day and your energy to comment on my art, then I got your attention.

I was very small when I started making music. I think the first song might have been when I was, like, in grade one, maybe? It was really ironic, cause it was a kid talking about taking time with growing up.

You cannot make a social-conscious picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart. I mean, that's a fairy tale - definitely.

Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.

When you mimic everyone, sometimes authority figures really don't appreciate it which is not an original story. And pretty much every comedian has some tale of that.

A tale is born from an image, and the image extends and creates a network of meanings that are always equivocal.

My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.

My lips are big, but my talent is bigger.

You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.

There is only one school of literature - that of talent.

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Geography can be a major restriction for people to not be able to showcase their talent.

If you got talent, you just have to do you.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.

I don't think I really have a talent for movie acting.

I love art. My sister is an artist and my mother is a painter, so it is very much in the family. I haven't ever wanted to be a fine artist myself - my sister robbed me of my artistic talent, I think.