Quotes About Expression

Until I began to learn to draw, I was never much interested in looking at art.

Is an artist much more than a beggar?

I learned that comedy is born out of strong characters. I won't begin writing a character until I have a clear take on them.

When I'm writing well, I feel happy. And when I go too long without writing, I begin to implode.

I would sit in my dorm room and write songs. I loved it. I was learning to sing and play guitar. I was becoming a musician. I was the beginner who somehow could write a song.

There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.

I feel like you just need to keep writing until the writing itself just begins to take shape.

Everything begins and ends with the writing.

Talking about your work all the time and to open up, you have to do all that. I have begun to find my fun in that as well.

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

I was quite badly behaved at school - I remember cutting class - and acting was a way of channelling energy.

The way I dress definitely helps me embody and actually change my way of behaving and feel more confident.

My character and my behavior is not for politics. I say what I think. I'm too liberal.

If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

I enjoy being a girl.

I like being a boy, but I also really like being a girl.

It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.

I love watching Marty Scorsese's films, but they always make me feel terrible about being a man.

I love being on the road with others, with a camera, but also being alone writing poetry.

I love playing music with people, but I also just love the art and meditation of being alone and working on stuff.

Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.

I never know when I am being funny, and the other way too. I don't think you can think about that. I don't think you can try to be funny. Some people are just funny.

I was always interested in being funny and amusing and creating art and comedy.

My quilting is dookie. All needlepoint-related things I should do better on, being honest.