Quotes About Expression

I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.

I know it sounds really precious and pretentious, but I can't actually remember deciding to want to be an actor. I just knew that I had too many feelings and I had to kind of get them out in some way.

Let's make it clear: women are sexier than men. They are a prettier gender than their male counterparts. And then, if a woman is comfortable showing her mid-riff on-screen, what is the other's problem? Why does she face body shaming? Does a man face the same while going shirtless?

'Happy girls are the prettiest,' and to be in the camera frame makes me happy. I just want myself to keep working. I can be in front of the camera for 48 hours continuously without any breaks.

Perfection isn't everything, some mistakes are pretty groovy.

Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

I'm pretty expressive. And when I love something or love someone, I express that.

If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times. I have pretty much built the work around my experiences. When I've moved from one place to another, the work has changed.

It's amazing how powerful a piece of work can be and how it can influence people and change. It's pretty interesting.

I'm not only my films, but I'm pretty much my films.

Being pretty... I'm just confused about it. I mean, I love getting my nails done, but I also like dressing like a boy. I think I feel most myself when I'm mixing femininity and masculinity. Like, fifty-fifty.

It's pretty amazing to see something in your head and write it down, go out and shoot it, then see it on the big screen. It's a pretty amazing feeling.

Music is really important to me; Kurt Cobain is important to me. Hearing Nirvana was pretty life-changing.

I've said it before: just being a pretty face ain't going to get you that far. It has to be about whatever the art behind it is and what the message is and what the music is, the purpose.

I certainly was never the pretty girl at school, but I can go to a lot of different places with this face.

There's feelings there, but I think I've just been pretty good at trying to hide my emotions throughout the years. I try to have the same demeanor each and every day.

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.

This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.

I play like I play. You hear it on 'Celebration Day.' It's pretty good for a one-night shot.

I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.

I'm pretty good with languages.

I've run my mouth pretty good about my beliefs.

To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with.