Quotes About Expression

As a comedian, you're making so many observations, so many measurements. You might catch someone's eyes as you're telling a joke, and they can have this sort of glazed expression on their face, and that can set all your dials off.

I will continue to make films to express my thoughts that come from my observations, from the society we live in.

Women tell things in more interesting ways. They live with more feeling. They observe themselves and their lives. Men are more impressed with action. For them, the sequence of events is more important.

Anil Sethi told me to get into journalism. The thought got into my head, that I could see things, write about them. I used to, anyhow, roam around, observe and describe things I saw.

To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.

I don't know if I am a good, average, or bad writer, but I write fast. Everything I observe, my experiences and imagination come together while writing.

I try to keep my sentences quite pared back. What I really want to do is observe people's relationships and interactions. I don't want language to get in the way of that. It's quite a difficult process to achieve that, for the language to feel clear.

What makes characters so interesting when you're an actor or a dancer is to watch and observe how people walk and move and speak. Are they cat-like? Are they walrus-like? Why does that person bother me, and why do I think they are the way they are?

I love to observe children, the way they talk and express themselves. 'Talk to my hand' is something I heard my son and his friends say. Even when I was in the U.S. attending college, it used to be a favorite snub for comments that we didn't appreciate. So I incorporated it into the act. I never imagined it would become so popular.

Usually I'll be with my friends and I'll observe everything, and grab emotions from that to write my songs.

I'm not interested in observed reality.

Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.

You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it.

I get to pick so many things as an actor. Also, I'm a good observer of people and their mannerisms.

The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me.

If you're not observing the world around you, in some sense you're not really an artist because then that means you're just replicating other people's stuff, or, I don't even know what you're doing.

'The Company' was interesting. I didn't love it, although it might be compelling to someone who isn't a dancer. There wasn't a lot of dialogue, and you were just kind of observing the creative process of choreography and in class.

I'm good at observing people, physical stuff, which leant itself to acting.

I think that's something that people don't realize enough about when they get into comedy - it's not just about sitting back and observing and saying something funny.

I've always really been interested in observing people's postures, the way they speak with their hands, the way they communicate things with their body language.

All the Bollywood choreographers are so talented and inspiring. I am learning a lot just by observing their work.

There are days when I'm completely obsessed with Kate Bush, and there are days when I'm completely obsessed with the Eurythmics. Then it's Aretha Franklin, then it's Lena Horne, then it's Ella Fitzgerald, then it's John Legend, then it's Michael Jackson. Music, to me, is like food, so I feel like whatever I need that day, I can get from a song.

When I turned 14, I became very obsessed with writing songs, and it took over my existence.