Quotes About Expression

I try to write something that has a common ground to everyone. But there's been nothing new in music since Bach; he put every note in the world on a piece of paper.

Writing takes gall. I like to think that's true even for writers with several books under their belt, writers who have been doing it for years. It takes something - guts, gumption, self-delusion - to ask for a reader's time when we all know there's nothing new under the sun; that it's all been said, or written, before.

I've always known that I wanted to be different. I wanted to stand out, so my gear is very elaborate, very blingy, very loud, because I want people to notice me, want to look like me. The Boss necklace, the ring. I want everything big.

Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.

I never notice a difference between photographing a man and a woman; for me, it's just somebody.

Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.

But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.

I haven't had Botox because my face is a bit lopsided and I depend on keeping everything animated so that people don't notice.

I aim to be translucent, so you don't notice the words, just their meaning. I haven't much insight into people's motivations.

I had feelings that I didn't know what to do with, and I felt better when I started writing them. I thought of it as poetry. I did notice girls really liked it. Better than football. They liked the combination.

Just make the comics you want to see, and people will notice.

In acting, while you play different roles, you begin to discover yourself and begin to notice life as you relate to the characters you represent.

I don't have much time for the 'sad clown' thing. It's only associated with comedians because of the disparity between feeling like that and what we do for a living. I bet there are loads of sad bankers and sad dentists. We just don't notice because they aren't bringing that much joy to the world.

I think great scores have to be noticed, but they're wrong when you hear the music come in.

Have you ever noticed when people stop laughing, they say, 'Oh dear?'

I was always humorous by nature but, maybe, no one noticed it. Or, maybe, I looked just too intense or serious to others.

I've always noticed that girls cry way easier than guys do.

In Fall Out Boy, I noticed that I wasn't putting all that much soul into it. It was just kind of screaming, I guess. I was just dying to get out of there!

I tried to mix country music into my sets in L.A., and I noticed that was when people checked out. And I was like, 'That doesn't make sense. The genre that I love the most is the one that doesn't work.'

The characters I've played that people have noticed included a cross-dresser and a transsexual.

Have you noticed that they write parts for mute women but not for mute men? It must be a masculine dream: a woman who can feel and hear but not talk!

Nothing makes you feel more stupid than learning a new language. You lose your confidence. You want to disappear. Not be noticed. Say as little as possible.

When I was in 2nd or 3rd grade, the drama teacher at my deaf school noticed that I liked to tell stories and had really good expression. I could entertain people with my stories.

Once something gets noticed and people love you, most of the makers want to put you in the same bracket, feeling this is what the audience would want from an actor. But as an artist, I don't want to be in that space.