Quotes About Expression

I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.

I want to inspire children to be obsessed over jewellery.

I'm obsessed with eyeliner - the darker and kohl-ier, the better.

I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls' private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater. I became obsessed with that.

I'm obsessed with subtexts. I love that we often don't say what we feel. That gap between the two. I like it when actors reveal a lot without having to say it.

I've always been obsessed with fashion.

I think I was always obsessed with esthetics.

Further, I'm obsessed with how language contorts and creates bodies.

I'm obsessed with jackets.

I was obsessed with this idea that these things that you collect, they just say so much about who you are. I can't say it came from hard-nosed business analysis... It was just something I really want to see built.

I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're like. They are in love with language. They're obsessed with it. Even if their thoughts aren't more special than anybody else's, they have a way of putting them into words that makes them sensational.

I got obsessed with makeup and makeup artists when I was young, with people like Kevyn Aucoin.

I really fell in love with dance. By the time I was seven, I had dance class six times a week. I was obsessed.

I love accents in general. I'm obsessed with dialects, and I had to write a whole movie about it called 'In a World...'

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

I wear very natural makeup, but it's made up out of five foundations to make that perfect skin, and my lipstick might be three different lipsticks mixed together, so it's a kind of obsession in a different way.

The novelist's obsession, moment by moment, is with language: finding the right next word.

I make music and I can't stop. It's a compulsion and an obsession and a curse.

I do write about obsession, but I don't think I have an obsession for writing. I'm not a compulsive writer. I like to watch obsession in other people, watch the way it makes them behave.

I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.

I have an obsession with describing hair. I don't know why - hair is just really pretty.

I have an obsession with haters: the great mess of the Internet expressing itself. I love to type my name on Twitter and read everything. It's always enlightening to see what they hate about you: I'm not pretty enough to be on stage, or my music doesn't make any sense. It feels good to read that, like I'm heading in the right direction!

There are so many things that interest me more than standing on the stage of my own obsessions.

If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn to it. And the obsessive interest in it forces you to develop it. You almost can't help yourself.