Quotes About Expression

If I don't do a bit of theatre at least once a year, I feel depleted and starved.

Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.

I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.

I read one book where the characters never said anything; instead, they spent all their time grunting and bleating and hissing and cooing and growling and chirping and... It was like a menagerie in there. After a while, I wasn't even taking in the rest of the book, because that was all I could see: the dialogue tags.

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had.

The musicians one day are going to listen to me.

I mean, there are so many of his songs that I like that I could easily do that one day.

It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.

What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.

But I don't know. Pee-wee just kind of popped out one day, pretty much fully fleshed-out and fully formed.

You really only have to use one half of your brain when you're deejaying.

I deliberate over the lyrics; I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.

I'm down to act a little bit - go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line.

I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be' this person, you know? So then its like, if I'm really this person, how can I be in the moment if I know there's just one line I'm supposed to say? It doesn't feel natural. I always just kind of want to say whatever comes up.

Marvin Bell always looked very closely at how lines could break, how you could put over one line into the second line. How you could stop the line two or three times within the line: You could make it stop.

After doing 'Life After Beth,' which I think had one line that wasn't scripted, everything was scripted so that it sounds natural, and I went to such great lengths to create dialogue and to come across the way that people wouldn't sound like they were on the nose.

One of the things I like about music is it's an abstract art, totally abstract, where you can convey an emotion, which I find amazing.

I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me happy.

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

I've always been just as interested in making people think as I am in making them feel, and one of the things this scientific process allows me to do is make the audience look differently at dance.

Well, I think, you know, the arts are really what - one of the things that make this country strong. We always think it's our economy or our military power, but in fact, I think it's our culture, our civilization, our ideas, our creativity.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

One of the things I've always thought is a drag in so many period adaptations is that they are always buttoned up to the neck in so many clothes all the time. I'm always looking for excuses to get them out of their clothes.

Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.