Quotes About Expression

When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come back to you.

Improv is so freeing because there are no bounds; there's no safety net. You just say something and get an instant response.

The main thing that's important to me is getting to do whatever project it is the way that I do what I do, and that's different. To go to an entity - whether it's a traditional film studio or some newer company, or HBO, Amazon or Netflix - they would have to know that I need to work the way I work.

It's so amazing that you can give somebody like David Fincher 'House of Cards,' and he can do whatever he wants - Netflix doesn't say, 'Oh, you can't do that,' or, 'We need a subplot here about this.' It's pretty neat that it is allowing the creatives to be creative.

FX is a network; that's their whole model, letting creators make the thing they want to make and then marketing it really well.

There's certain things that you can do on cable that you can't do here on network TV, so then you have to think outside the box a little bit.

I will admit I am a little bit of a line fudger. I will change the line a bit to make it feel better in my mouth. That is something they'll allow you to do on 'Veep' unless it's a particular joke where they're like, 'No, it just sounds better like this.' But with a lot of network shows, the script is law; you cannot change it all.

You can't say whatever you want on network television.

I've done network shows. A director will call me and say, 'Do you want to do this with me?' and I'll say, 'Sure,' but I couldn't do it forever because there's no real expression. That's not how people talk.

I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do.

A lot of people say I always play neurotic women. Well, who doesn't play neurotic women?

Writing is one thing, but I'm way more insecure and neurotic when it comes to acting.

I'm a neurotic attention-seeker.

I think art should stand in its own neutral place, because I think that's how reality always is - it's this duality of being both hopeless and also full of hope.

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

A lot of brands are saying they're going to make 'gender neutral' clothing. But clothing is gender neutral.

Music gave me that neutral lane to relate with everyone.

The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.

I love the power of theater. I think it's an experience you never forget.

I'll never forget, I was talking to the singer in one of the heavier rock bands I was in, and it was like a screaming band, and I was like, 'Man, why don't we make a song that's like 'Let's Celebrate!.'

Acting is like driving; you can never forget it, and it's in my blood.

No matter how many feminist tracts you read, you never forget what boys like.

As an artist, what I'm looking for isn't the answers but the questions. Art saved my life, and I'm sure that it could save the lives of many people. If it's not art, find your place. But never give up.

I will never stop complaining.