Quotes About Expression

I always say that I'm a filmmaker, not a factory. I don't have to churn out films every six months.

I almost shouldn't be in Limp Bizkit; it's like I got matched in the factory with the wrong band.

Real artists free of the tedium of money can use, now, all of society as an idea factory.

I don't believe people are interested in dates and facts. I don't think it is interesting to say what it is to be this person or that, but I do believe it is entertaining and perhaps even of value to express how it is to be that person.

I think artists need the freedom to fail and I gave myself that freedom.

If I had to pick one song for me that sort of quintessentially summed me up, it would be 'Angel.' Without fail, I absolutely love singing it.

If art doesn't move people, then art has failed.

I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.

Whenever I have tried to write for other people, that's when my writing has failed, when nobody wanted to read it or buy it. But it's only when I've been able to write a story that makes me excited, only then have other people wanted to read it.

I'm very drawn to the way in which a life lived can be an art of sorts or a failed art, and a life-lived-told can be art as well.

I still feel that a movie has to attempt to say something - even if it fails miserably. But I've sort of given up on believing that I'm going to change the world with every film I choose to act in.

I really think everything is fair game.

I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.

The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them.

An actor's life is fairly lonely.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

I like to write in fairly everyday language - I've always tried to write lyrics that, if people would speak the words, it wouldn't sound like a song.

As an actor, you don't want to say, 'I'm going to be loud and big.' Because that looks awful; that looks fake.

Drag is something real. We're so fake that something real actually comes through.

That's the thing about acting - you can't fake it.

Tennis is fake. We have real characters, but they don't dare to be themselves, and the code of conduct has a lot to do with that.

A lot of people called me fake, but I always said what came to my mind.

During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.