Quotes About Expression

Acting just seems to be a way of getting into a different place. It seems like a really creative place to be.

Bleachers comes from a different place. It's personal. It's just me putting myself out there as myself. It's very intense.

Music comes from a whole different place. It tells the story of your life and it's probably the closest thing I have to a religion.

I think dancing always took me to a different place. It was hard and it was a struggle, but it took me to the kind of place I wanted to live in. It wasn't real life.

When I look back at the record and listen to it, I can sort of see where I was at when I was making it - these brief little moments, different places I was at emotionally.

Everybody does drag for different reasons.

The songs always tell you something, but always for different reasons.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I longed to break out of the system and do different roles.

There's a side to you as an actor, a selfish side, that wants to go on and play different roles.

What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.

Sexiness has its different roles.

I have tried to look different and play different roles through my life because I am passionate about my work.

Playing character roles gives me the freedom to try out different roles, including negative ones or elderly ones. When one is playing the lead role, clearly there are limitations and responsibilities.

Sometimes you forget how good it feels to just move, to express, to make different shapes, and let your body be free.

I think all artists have a different story to tell, and no story is the same.

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

I feel like people believe I'm thinking a different thing than I am because I have this look about me.

I love songs with, like, six or seven or eight different things going on at once, and that's just me.

I'm interested in so many different things and art forms.

The whole acting thing is a buffet. One, in terms of role choice and movie choice, I like to do lots of different things, and I think that's the whole fun of it. But I also see it as a buffet in terms of the character.

I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.

We all battling different things. Me? I'm just able to channel that through my music.

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.