Quotes About Expression

The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.

I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.

The most important thing is to allow gaps and openings for people to make up their own minds - I don't want my film to be pretending to have one important truth to tell anyone.

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions.

There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.

It's amazing how many things you can do when you're just pretending.

Actors are pretending for you, but they're not lying. They are not putting on a guise instead of themselves. They are finding things inside that they have experienced.

The best thing to do when you're writing is to write about something you know instead of pretending. I mean, you can do that too, obviously, but when you write from your heart, it works so much better.

I'm a performer. I'm pretending to be someone else. I'm not putting my own self into the show every night.

The happiest that I remember myself was putting on plays and pretending to be other people.

Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid to be on a set, pretending to be other people is fun.

The thing a writer has to avoid is being the 'voice' of his people and pretending he can speak for them.

I feel like I'm absolutely insane, and I don't think I could probably do anything else. I just love entertaining, and I feel like pretending to be people... and having that as a job is crazy.

When I'm acting, I'm pretending to be someone else, but when I fish, I'm just Robson.

Hip-hop is not about pretense. You can be missing an eye; you can have an ice-cream cone in your face; you can run around with Bantu knots; you can decide to wear gold, all everything. It's not about how you look - it's about what you say. It's about what message you're getting across.

Borrowing something from one art form and relocating it in another always has a whiff of pretension about it, like in books if, instead of 'Chapter One,' you have 'First Movement.'

If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

Honestly, I don't focus on what my writing is called. I don't mean to sound artsy and pretentious, I just really can't think of things in that way. For me, the point is telling a story that keeps people up past bedtime, while hopefully exploring ideas that resonate.

Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues.

I want to paint. That is probably going to sound so pretentious coming from someone who's been a musician.