Quotes About Expression

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.

Every dish is very connected to my own experiences. Perhaps I go deeper in the description and feeling in the dish than a male chef would. But it's difficult to say.

Perhaps I've been perceived more as a romantic comedy actor, but overall, I enjoy acting in any shape or form.

I like to think of myself as an unmediated novelist - or perhaps a national novelist.

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.

One resists categorization at one's peril.

My thing is music, period.

What I do is create images, period.

I don't kiss on screen. Period.

You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and you escape from it. That's ongoing.

I'm a former hippie, so clothes are important to me - your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people. But, I change a lot. I'm in my Brooks Brothers period now.

Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.

I'm a fan of good music, period.

I am an actress, period.

On our show, I must tell you, it was... the 60s was a period of time when everything was free love. People made love to each other. It was a very open life, you know?

I am an actress and acting is my passion... period!

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.