Quotes About Expression

I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more.

I don't think I am a soul singer and definitely don't think that I am a country artist by any stretch.

Now I'm going to put my eyelashes on and stretch my legs out and do a show.

Chiron is so distant from the person I am; it's important for me to distance myself from that so people can understand that was the character. Hopefully, I'll find another opportunity that allows me to stretch like that again.

I like to stretch my acting muscles.

I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good.

On nights that I'm feeling a need to stretch personally and artistically, I tend to put together outfits that are very quirky, mismatched and over-the-top eclectic.

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music.

I like doing roles that stretch me.

Sometimes in film and television, I don't have the opportunity to play roles that really stretch and challenge me.

Cursing is heavily used in the Irish language. It's not a stretch for me, and I have no qualms about it. It doesn't fall far from the real me.

'Auto Music' isn't a pop record by any stretch.

It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.

Especially with Fantomas, i'm just trying to stretch out what the band can do. Figuring out, really, on the job or on recordings, what I can or can't get away with.

Everything starts with what's on the page, what a writer has come up with. And whether it is a big studio film or independent film, is the story being well told? Is it interesting? Is the character interesting? And is there something about the character that may stretch me?

I have a lot of talent and sometimes, you know, when people see you're a drag queen they go, 'Oh, he's a drag queen. That's what he does.' But I'm always excited to... stretch the boundaries on how they see me.

Our main love has always been pop music. We love the restrictions of it in a certain sense, the length and the repetitiveness. But then how much can you get away with - our intention is always to stretch ourselves.

I like to write, but being a busy mother, it is difficult to sit down and write at a stretch.

I just write a little bit on piano. I'm not by any stretch of the means even a good piano player. I just pick out little melodies on the piano and play.

There's a very fine line between martial arts and dance. Kicking with your foot stretched out, or kicking with your foot flat in someone's face, in terms of flexibility, it's all kind of the same thing.

Music is liquid. It's meant to be messed with and played with and stretched and pulled and pushed, I think.

I have these large pieces of recycled brown paper stretched on my apartment wall and when I am not doing anything fashion-related, I'm drawing on it, playing with colour spectrums.

To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism.