Quotes About Expression

One of the things I wanted to do was direct. There've been a couple of times that a director will walk up and say something to me, and all it does is make me mad. Inside I'll go, 'Well, that wasn't helpful at all.'

One of the things I had to really work on is, when you're the leader of an organization, people look at the expression on your face. Your mood has a lot to do with how people think the whole organization is doing.

One of the things I love about jazz music is that intent is first and execution is second. In classical music, execution is first and intent is second, meaning that you must first learn a piece before you can truly add your interpretation to it.

That's one of the things that's great about acting. You can play all the different aspects of a human being.

One of the things about dealing with an artist is that their art is essentially - if they're successful, it's kind of lightning in a bottle. There is no formula for it.

Freedom of ideas and communications is one of the things we are fighting for, and our enemies are fighting against.

One of the things that always disappointed me as a kid, growing up, was when you could tell the singer had a fancy for something different and turned the band into something else.

I think, when I write, one of the things that I'm really attempting to do is I'm attempting to humanize my characters.

One of the things that happens when you write characters - and maybe this is my own sentimentality - is that I always find I have an instinct to protect them.

One of the things you learn as an actor is that human beings are capable of almost anything. I'm sort of in the business of illustrating that fact.

That's what's so great, I get to play any character in the world. And I think that's one of the things that makes doing 'Comedy Bang Bang' or other improv podcasts so fun, as well as my own, is that you can really explore a character deeply for a long period of time that is nothing like yourself.

One thing the blues ain't, is funny.

I become mad when I work. It's like a fever that grows; I don't need to choose just one thing.

I think it's more important to make a lot of different things and keep coming up with new images and things that were never made before, than to do one thing and do it well.

There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

One thing about playing the real jazz is that you can't count it.

I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.

Ballroom dancing is so articulate. Your hips have to be a certain way, legs have to be straight at one time and bent another.

With music I feel like it's the one time when I don't have to think and I don't have to contrive anything.

Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

No artist is one-dimensional. I get the sense that if I push myself now and if I create a million different-sounding songs - I just feel that's going to be such a set-up for my ability in the future.