Quotes About Expression

I used to watch Bollywood songs and learn choreographies from there.

It is interesting to see how Bollywood music gels with waacking.

There is a scarcity of writers in Bollywood.

I got rid of Warlock's lightning bolt because... it was a real pain to draw.

I am a Bombay girl.

The real bombs are my books, not me.

Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

I always had a musical bone, I guess if you will.

I feel it in my bones that if I had a kid, I would not either continue to write or have written the book I have done. So it's just me and the dog. I've always gotten along better with animals than I have with children, anyway.

I love acting. I just love it. It's in my bones.

My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.

If you want to boo, that's your right. Boo. Go ahead. Boo me all day long.

'Boogie Chillen',' by John Lee Hooker - that is a riff.

There have been times when I booked out a dance studio and I've tried to choreograph in there and suddenly I feel like I have no creativity.

Like books and black lives, albums still matter.

Race, class, childhood experience, the books I found on my mother's bookshelf, the albums I found in my father's basement - these things are all part of who I am and will always be a part of my work.

I'm just going to write whatever I'm going to write, and whatever shelf or section they end up on at the bookstore is just going to be that, and I'll let the marketing people pull their hair out and worry about it.

When we did 'Boomerang,' which is one of my favorite scenes, the whole dinner scene was ad-libbed.

I don't know whether it is a boon or a bane but I can't act. I can just be. To me, that's the beauty of a performance. Otherwise, there is a falsetto, which sounds jarring.

People value makeup differently. Some people see makeup as an artistic expression, some people use makeup as a boost of confidence. I just think makeup is so beautiful and that it really is art. That's why I do makeup.

I can't walk in stilettos. I'm more of a boot girl.

I like a high boot on a girl.

When I'm in the studio, I just let it rip. That's my process. I get in the booth, and whatever is on my mind at the time, I just go off and say it.

No, I'm not Shirley the girl, I'm the woman on MTV with the big boots.