Quotes About Expression

The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

I think comics do need permission to fail. I think comics do need permission to go up and try stuff.

I've given myself permission to say whatever's on my mind when I'm on stage.

I think giving yourself permission to be weird is amazing. After all what does it mean to be normal?

I love breaking the fourth wall, and being given permission to play with the audience!

That's what I love about writing is you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can just get up in the morning, grab a pad and pen and start writing.

Instead of asking for permission, we're seeing more artists and creatives taking control over the stories we tell.

What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.

Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.

Only man is permitted to live without rhythm in order that he can become free. However, he must of his own accord bring rhythm again into the chaos.

Well, I'm permitted to say anything I like. I just don't.

The nice thing about gag manga is how it has this aspect where, at the very least, you're permitted to come out with anything. In my case, anything can talk. Like the mountains.

Women's art, political art - those categorisations perpetuate a certain kind of marginality which I'm resistant to. But I absolutely define myself as a feminist.

Off-camera, I sound like Perry Como.

I like Katy Perry.

When someone comes forward and is an individual, such as a Lady Gaga or a Katy Perry, people respond to them because there is that sense of innocence. It's obviously dress up and theatre.

I think it's incredibly important for kids to be able to express who they are and feel like they can be themselves without being persecuted for it or bullied for it.

I admit I feel funny when I use the word 'whom' as I'm talking to my diapered children, but I persist.

If you're a persistent soul artistically, you'll find the truth of your art.

To me, new friends, new genres, new person-to person chemistry is the DNA of EDM.

Just because you say something doesn't make it controversial, and it doesn't make you a bad person.

I am an honest person, and that includes showing my emotions - good or bad.

If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.

People will listen to a song and expect that you just have that persona on all the time. But really, that was your one outlet that one day to get that emotion out. The only difference was you put it on a canvas that's going to be there forever.