Quotes About Expression

Most people would say the meaning of life is to make the world a little more beautiful, or nicer, or more interesting. But how? These days, our main answer to that is: through work.

I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.

The number of mystery and horror writers I've met who are just the sanest and the nicest people... it's crazy. Maybe it's because the writing gets something out of the system?

I feel like the falsetto is my niche and my sound and something different.

Rock music is niche.

Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

When I write a song, it is to fill a niche in people's lives. To have a song for every experience if one hadn't been written yet.

I think when you come from a house full of artists, everyone's got their niche.

In music you can find your own niche. You can do what you want to do. There is really no job description. You have to find your own way, and that's fun.

Everyone has a little niche in rap, and I just wanted to carve a piece out of it for myself.

I just want to act - commercial, mainstream, niche or art - my choices are not defined by labels.

I just like to draw and put ideas down. And every idea that Nickelodeon doesn't buy I put on the Noog Network.

My parents never gave me a nickname. But for my friends, I am everything from 'Nushki' to 'Nusheshwar.'

My nickname is Esta Bell.

I think that 'Cry Baby' came from a nickname I was called as a kid.

I started drawing a mouse because it was my father's nickname for my mother. And mice are very expressive.

I have always wanted to sing at some point in my life. In fact, when I was shooting for 'Oohalu Gusagusalaade,' I would randomly start singing on the sets, and I even earned a nickname 'Radio' on that film.

I'm not a big nickname guy.

The woman I'd want to meet the most is Nicole Holofcener. I've loved every single film she's done. I think her films are deeply comedic while being deeply disturbing and dark.

Nicole is, as I'm sure everyone is aware, she's very open. She's very sexual about things and she definitely doesn't hold back, which is very hard for me to accept, because I was raised in Russia.

I am not a practising Jew, and I am not embedded in Nigerian culture, but I have a sense of those things inside me, which is very handy for acting. There are a lot of things I can draw on.

I come from a performing family. My parents are Nigerian, and their parents and their parents - and it's all about performance in their culture, you know. The music. The dancing... you're told to stand out at family gatherings and perform in some sort of way. You're just kind of born into it.

All music is escapism for me, but I like the way that, on a good night, that sense of escapism can be shared.

A lot of guys come out, and they do the exact same thing, are in the exact same mood, and have the exact same entrance every night, I really just make up a lot of crap as I go along.