Quotes About Expression

I suppose I reached the limit of what I could do with nonfiction books, perhaps because they never felt quite intense enough - it's a journalistic enterprise, ultimately, even if you are using the memoir as a form.

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

You play a 'lowdown dirty shame slow and lonesome, my mama dead, my papa across the sea I ain't dead but I'm just supposed to be' blues. You can take that same blues, make it uptempo, a shuffle blues, that's what rock n' roll did with it. So blues ain't going nowhere. Ain't goin' nowhere.

We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. Flamboyant.

'House of Balloons' was actually supposed to have more songs than it does.

I always used to dress up in little girls' clothes when I was really young. Then I realized that boys weren't supposed to do that, and I got really shy. I didn't do it for many years.

We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.

When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

You have to write a good score that you feel good about. At least, you're supposed to. But, if the director hates it, it ain't going to be in the movie!

Society needs a couple of vents that say what you're not supposed to say.

Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.

I'm not supposed to be phonetically correct or enunciate perfectly.

Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.

Let's remember, a protest isn't supposed to appease everybody.

I think I was supposed to play jazz.

There are so many things that you're supposed to conform to as an actress. Keep your mouth shut. Look pretty. Be a fashionista. I'm not stylish. I don't want to become this character.

It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song.

I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

The thing is, acting is supposed to be fun - maybe not always in a way that's lighthearted, but always in a way that's satisfying.

What I am really concerned about is what art is supposed to be - and can become.

As women, we're always supposed to be catty, or too cute to dance. And it sucks.

If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies.