Quotes About Expression

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

In that moment, Dan was reminded why he wanted to write in the first place. It was the same reason anybody does anything -- to impress women.(Jeremy Goodwin, Sports Night)

People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.

I had tried to express myself, but couldn't do that because I was afraid that it will hurt someone. I never knew that not expressing myself hurt myself.

When you paint your lips, eye lids, nails or whatever, to look attractive, don't forget your up stairs(intellect) if you leave it behind, i will consider all other colors invalid.

A woman's beauty should not imitate art.

High heels are a short (theist) woman's (subconscious) way of telling God to go to hell … in public.

i found god in myself& i loved her/ i loved her fiercely

American liberals today are hesitant to speak out against the denial of rights that is perpetrated in the name of Islam.

The remnants of his adolescent vulnerability were all over his face.

I write so that my handful of pebbles, cast daily into still waters, will produce a ripple.

The very first time I did standup, I went to an open mike on the Lower East Side at a place that doesn't exist anymore. And it was one of those open mikes that wasn't really just for comedy.

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

Podcasts feature comedians being as funny as they can be in a non-censored situation. It's really akin to standup in a way. When you go see a comedian in standup, that is the most pure, unadulterated form of their art.

I never really saw myself as a standup comedian. I always just thought of myself as someone who used the eight minutes or 10 minutes she was allotted and had a blast.

Tracy Ullman, I grew up watching her shows and standup and improv and specials. Bette Midler and Whoopi Goldberg. They inspire me to do it all. I always wanted to do it all; I never wanted to be put in a box.

Trying my hand at standup was exciting to me.

I come from standup and improv.

Standup is really the only thing in the entertainment business that you do totally alone.

In standup, it's just you. You're your own writer, your own critic, your own director, and it's never the same. You really don't always have it down. Your continue to learn, you continue to risk, and I really love it.

When you're doing standup, it's just you. It's your written jokes. You perform it however your personality is.

I guess that I was always considered a little too weird for the standup clubs and probably too jokey for doing performance art and those places where those are done.

The idea that standup is a thing with defined boundaries is kind of ludicrous.

Standup led me to acting because I liked standup, and I saw people on a stage, and the closest, nearest thing to me was doing plays. It was like, that's the same thing as standup - people are on a stage; they're being seen and saying things - so, because of my love of standup, I moved towards acting.