Quotes About Expression

I try and be just completely me on stage. I try and put that across, and people seem to get that personality that I have, so I do try not to become two different people and two different faces.

I think I just have one of those faces that can look like lots of different people.

I mostly do faces and sounds. That's what I do. Comedy doesn't have to be art.

All the events that have made up the character and fabric of British culture and everything that has happened to make up the fabric of America culture - art and music - includes the faces and the colours of a lot of people.

I guess I happen to have one of those faces that just says everything I'm thinking. I guess it's a gift, but I see it as a potential liability. It keeps me honest.

Never make your actors do comical faces. Let them be serious and let the situations make people laugh.

I grew up in a world where music was a way of life, and I'm part of a family that in some facet or another, every single one of us has continued to live in that world.

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

I know how to play comedy when it's needed. So even when it's really not there, my facial expressions are really great. I have a lot of facial expressions in my face, you know.

Someone told me I had funny facial expressions. I don't know whether I take that as a compliment or not, but.

American Sign Language is a language. It's fun to learn, and it's different from other languages because you use your hands, you use your face, your facial expressions, and there is also an incredible culture that comes with it and an amazing community too, and through that, we can support each other.

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much facility on the page.

I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

I don't like drawing characters facing right.

When I'm facing an issue or a challenge sometimes, it's easier for me to avoid really facing that or dealing with it, and just go make films.

Usually people are apprehensive about facing the camera for the first time. But for me, it was the most natural thing.

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist.

Singing well has always been important to me, but the most important factor is the connection to the audience.

You see on 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'X Factor,' they all wear ear plugs. But I could not hear myself when I wore them. So that is where the strong voice came from.

I've been writing way before 'X Factor,' and I've been doing shows before 'X Factor.' And everything I did on this show was me being me. Same way I acted in the show is the same way I act now as an artist.

When you go into the studio, you have to know what you're going in there for. I went into the studio because I had a voice and I wanted to change things, and I don't necessarily mean my bank account. The money is almost a B factor, a side product.