Quotes About Expression

It feels like there are two very different parts to making movies. There's the making of it and then there's the putting out of it - and I like the making of the movies a lot more than putting it out into the world.

I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.

I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.

Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.

Women can be two different people - one person at home, another at work.

The sound of tap is not 'clickety clickety tap tap,' this monotone thing. The sound of tap has depth. We want you to hear the different highs and lows, the bass, the trebles and the melodies, if you can.

I have the feeling that a lot of poets writing now are - they sort of tap dance through it.

I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.

I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out.

Male filmmakers only need to tap their female selves in order to develop their female gaze as many great filmmakers have done. But why is it important to do so? Because the world has been run by aggressive males and landed itself in a fine mess.

I'm the kind of performer who gets lost on stage. I can tap into this soulful haze.

Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head.

I took tap classes growing up.

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.

I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.

Tap is still the central driving force of my life. I think and talk in dance.

The Demon character is something I draw on occasion. It's something that requires a lot of focus to tap into and really requires the right situation for me to sort of draw on that darker side of my personality.

In Sonic Youth, at the end of 'Expressway to Yr. Skull,' we'd tap on the backs of our guitars to get this low-level feedback, and if I leaned forward, and the guitar hung off my body, it would resonate differently.

It depends how lenient you are with your definition of artist. If you're going to include those who tap dance at the high school recital, then maybe I am.

When I was 13, I was a member of a women's over-40s tap class.

If you remix, people want to tap into your sound. If you keep that to yourself, it makes the sound more special.

I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.

I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.