Quotes About Expression

I would act whether or not I was paid. I would be involved in ensemble groups. I would have the desire to tell stories.

If you're a model, you're paid to be a muse.

I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it.

I don't like to cry in public, unless I'm getting paid for it.

I did not get Botox because you wouldn't see any expression in my face. Hopefully it has paid off.

Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.

Without blood and pain, there is no Slipknot.

I feel that most of our pain from the loss of a loved one is things we never said or expressed.

Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.

For me, artists are the world's pain receptors. That is why they have such a hard time living.

You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

Like I can't cry for myself so I will let this song take all of the things inside I can't let anyone else see and offer it up, as if the sound were some kind of god, and my pain is some kind of sacrifice.

If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.

We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

People have so much pain inside them that they're not even aware of.

British people don't express when they are in pain. They don't think it's elegant.

Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.

I want people to hear my lyrics and my melodies and say, 'That dude's in pain.'

I think it's really cool to embrace the pain of something that may have hurt you and be able to express it through music.

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

Finally I had a place where I could express my pain and I felt safe because I didn't have to put my name on it. I think acting kept me alive back then.

For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.

A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.