Quotes About Expression

Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.

I think part of being human is jokes.

Sometimes it's really weird being an artist, and I deal with that best by being myself.

I'm more comfortable doing a character than being myself.

Swavey is the movement. Three words... It's Unique, it's true, and it's yourself. It's a very unique thing: it's true to yourself, and it's all about you just being yourself.

I'm not afraid of you being yourself. That's America.

I sing 'Beirut' for what the city is for me, but I am also singing as an exile.

I think that we need to look hard at our beliefs and be responsible about how we speak out.

We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.

I don't want to fit in. I want to make music that can reach out to people of all different ages and backgrounds and beliefs and turn us into one, groovin, 'Goodtimenation.'

I'm not a political person; I'm not an activist. I'm not a guy with strong beliefs about anything. I have nothing to say to the world.

The way of creating believable characters is not by conforming to a set of PC rules.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.

I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'

I've always believed applause is food for an artist.

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

I've always believed in trying to be as open as possible. I think it almost comes with the job - if you can bare your emotions, it makes for better acting.

I believed early and still believe that everybody who can act can do it already, just they don't know how and don't want to talk about it.

I'm a real believer in counter-speech when it comes to crazy stuff we don't like.

I'm a believer that you shouldn't really talk about the drawing until you're done with the drawing.

I'm a believer in using whatever works for fiction, but mostly, that's not life.

I'm an actor who believes in looking different in every film of mine.

Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes.