Quotes About Expression

You do not move forward by following convention. You celebrate those who are different, who are not burdened by 'normality.'

It's really fun to put yourself into a character - into shoes you wouldn't normally be in.

Most Hindi movies tend to dramatise events. They are very dialogue heavy. Characters don't speak like people normally do in real life.

I sort of felt like being young was normally written about as being very fun and light-hearted. And I think that's true, but I don't feel like there's a lot of songs about how hard it is when you don't really know who you are or what you want, and you feel like you have to apologize for simply just existing.

I normally speak by moving my hands, and I'm very expressive with my face - something Cuban, I guess.

Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.

As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.

Normally, when people compose for film, you give them the film, and they look at it, and they compose it.

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

At first it was a bit daunting, but once I started to do it, the more I got into it, the more I started enjoying it and being able to say things lyrically that I would normally have to say musically.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

I'd like to make over Marilyn Manson and just dress him really normally to see what he looks like. That'd be really weird!

I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics.

I love graffiti because it enables kids from every social extraction to do something that brings them closer to art, when they normally wouldn't be stimulated to be visually creative. Graffiti helps to develop an awareness of immediate expressive and uncontrolled freedom.

In the work that I normally do, you have a whole script, a whole arc, that you play. And I do believe a good actor will play every bit of information they're given.

I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.

I normally write in the first person, and my narrators are as real to me as any of the people I have worked with. They live and breathe in my imagination.

I have a lot of characteristics that would normally be present in a guy and then less that would be present in a woman.

Playing Mo-yeon was satisfying because I could be irritable. I normally can't be like that in public because of my image.

Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.

Our songs aren't metaphorical, normally: they're literal in their interpretation.

Sometimes, when comedians get success, they don't do as much weird stuff as they normally do.

Normally, when I write the setlist for a Dream Theater show, I'll change it up every night, and we can basically play whatever we want.

When I started to write music that was completely divorced from any sort of idea of commercial success, the real me started to come out. Normally, a musician in a session for a pop record would have to discard a lot of ideas because they won't fit, because they're not commercial.