Quotes About Expression

There isn't only one way that black art or entertainment is represented, and that's the most important thing. We're permeating every style. We're claiming and, when necessary, appropriating all kinds of forms. Nothing is forbidden, because it's not what black people do: because it's not what we think of as black art.

Don't let anyone tell you there's only one way to write.

My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised. She brought me home, and I wouldn't stop dancing.

Creativity, for a lot of young people, is a coping mechanism. It's the only place they feel comfortable. It's the only time they feel like they're being heard or can make a difference, is if they can go into a room and do a drawing or go to a garage and play a song or retreat to this world.

See, I'm not a very open person, face-to-face. I'm no good at sharing my feelings with others, good or bad. I kind of close up. Music is the only time I can open up and actually say things.

The only time you will ever see me in drag is when I am - What? Getting paid. It is my job.

The only time I was really free was when the director said 'Action' in front of a camera or on the stage, and that's when I flew.

The only time I am not talking is when I am dancing. I look like an electrocuted octopus.

'Jai Lava Kusa' is my best look onscreen.

Good acting is confused with good dialogue delivery. Acting is about all about performance, and the way we interpret and understand the character that we bring alive onscreen.

I love being onstage, I love getting applause, and I love the love that comes across the footlights. It's so much a part of what I do and what I've done most of my life.

You don't need to exorcise your personal demons onstage.

I think sometimes comedians and entertainers and artists, sometimes they get onstage, and it's all for what they want to do. I think you still need to do stuff for the audience. They're the ones who are making it possible.

I hate being up onstage with a microphone.

So much about getting onstage is creating a connection with an audience that allows you to go different places and try different things.

I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

There is no reason why a guitar player makes the guitar-playing faces. It doesn't help you play guitar. You've not improved your skills. It's because you're up onstage, and the natural inclination is to put on a show. The rock guy faces are just as much of a front or a show as us wearing crazy makeup. It's just a different scale.

I never used to speak to the audience at all. I never really knew what to say onstage.

I don't really move onstage; all I do is just gradually hunch more and more and jut out at the people in the front row.

My favorite comedians are basically themselves onstage.

What I learned is that acting is to a large extent about trying to stave off self-doubt long enough to be natural and real onstage.

I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.

Doing 'Life Without Makeup' onstage is what inspired me to do a book in the first place.

Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a lesbian onstage is still a very political act; if it weren't, more women would do it.