Quotes About Expression

I still say I have no interest in being an actor - I just love acting.

The First Amendment only says 'Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.' It can disrespect all it wants.

This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.

I need time to do whatever I want to do. What happens to an actor that has no life experience? They don't know how to act as a different role. So, that's really important to do.

If you book the same models that look and act the same in every show - I get the continuity, and it is beautiful to see, but there's also no life to it. I'm personally not a fan of that.

There is no limit to how far drag can go.

I'd get bored if I... if I had to do a movie, and there was no love story in it, I would just be bored. I mean, I would do it, but it would be kind of boring.

On an independent film where you're working with just a handful of people, you don't have to explain anything because no one cares. You can do whatever you want. There's no one there to tell you not to do it.

You get older and come to the conclusion that it's a great gig making music. Even if you turn into an old gnarly fart, no one cares what you look like if you write good songs - the only gig is to sing well and perform.

Lyrics are no more important than the music. There's no point in forcing them on people.

I have come to the conclusion there is no point making anything if you're not going to make people laugh and cry.

There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.

If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60. I don't know, that's a commercial thing, but just the fact that other people like you... there's no point in making music, otherwise. Otherwise, you might as well make it in your bedroom and leave it there.

There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point.

When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself.

You have to write the story that's at the front of your head. There is no point in trying to write for the market; it won't ring true.

For me, there's no point in being an artist and putting yourself out there if you're not going to really put yourself out there.

If I can't connect emotionally with the music I'm making, there's no point making it in the first place.

Voice work is the best - no need to dress up, no audience, no pressure, nobody's judging you.

In academics, it's getting your voice out that's important. It's getting somebody to listen to you. I had no problem with that. People were always curious about what I had to say.

I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.

The music that I write, I have to actually own it and live by it, which is cool. It's no problem.