Quotes About Expression

I had no idea what those cords were in the bridge of 'Prisoner In Disguise' when I wrote them. I had to go over to Don Gorman, the piano player, and ask what in the world I was playing.

'Prisoner' is not a direct 'I've just been divorced' album, although that fire is burning very well on the record.

Do whatever you want to do in the privacy of your own home.

People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.

I can't understand why anyone would want to live the life of a politician if you can't say pretty much what you think. You are not in it for the money: there's unremitting pressure on your life, you give up so much of your privacy. It can only be because of the things you want to do and the things you want to say.

I love to tell stories, but the making is less comfortable. I like to be private, and being in the middle of a film crew with the least amount of privacy is the discomfort of shooting a movie. For me, the editing is the great moment when I can bring back ideas and realize the movie for the last time before I hand it to the audience.

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.

Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

The first 13 years of my life, I lived in China. My parents were missionaries there, and I was an only child. Often I felt lonely and out of place. Writing for me became my private place, where no one could come.

I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.

In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

Acting is actually private.

I never wanted to dilute my private passion for the art by airing and arguing it in public.

I went to a private arts school. We had to wear cloaks.

What the actor is in private life, he is to a large extent on the stage, because he cannot conceal himself and his true personality from his audience.

I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.

I'm such a private person, and sexuality is such a private thing. A sex scene is much harder than a fight scene. It's one thing to say, 'Kick higher,' but 'Kiss harder' - that's just crazy.

I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business.

I can't ever think of writing a book or an autobiography. I'm a little private person.

My experiences in the military, the private sector, and as a congressional staffer were at times almost enough to drive me crazy. Writing offered the all-too-often-cited creative outlet.

I always did music privately as a hobby, I think partly because I was nervous to do it in front of other people.

For me, in my mind personally and privately, there are no limits to comedy.

My film-making is the privilege of French cinema. I would have to do things totally differently elsewhere. But I think I could learn from that and have fun being part of a bigger collective.

Plays are painful. But the very act of writing is a basic freedom denied some women. Some would call it a privilege. So what's a little pain?