Quotes About Expression

As I get older and write more books I'm definitely allowing the humorous side of my personality more rein in my work.

I've been a comedian for a long time so writing and performing is a big part of what I do. If anybody's doing comedy they should also work on writing.

Fittings are boring, but it's fun when you get to wear something new and go to a new event. I have a massive say in what I wear - I work really closely with my stylist.

I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.

Having an opportunity to play different characters, and work in different mediums, that's what's fun. The worst question you could be asked is, "What do you like better, film, television or theater?"

Create quality art.... meaningful, passionate and high quality work! If it's not meaningful to you, how can you expect it to be meaningful to anyone else?

An album is a thing you take time out and go work on.

I feel like doing theatre helps my on-camera work and my on-camera work kind of helps my theatre work. So I love to be able to bounce through the mediums.

I really do like seeing other people perform my music. It's one of the most rewarding things for me, so it's worth the extra work.

My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.

I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

I try to only work on the screenplays for a few hours a day when I'm in my most voluble mood, just sort of writing whatever comes into my head. It's a very freeing thing.

I can look at my early work and see what a pained struggle it was to draw what I was drawing. I was trying so hard to get this specific look that was in my head, and always falling short.

I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.

I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.

I don't dress for effect, and I think that it never works out when someone does.

Early on, my emotional work had to do with feeling unheard and invisible.

It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work.

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you.

In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

I think Lindsay Kemp really introduced me to the work of Jean Genet, and through that, I kind of kept re-educating myself about other prose writers and poets.

In a certain way, you get some new tools to work with, but I don't know if it ultimately makes the creative process any easier.

I don't like watching people work if they're making art.