Quotes About Expression

France was very opposite of the show-business experience I'd been living; I was anonymous and alone. I wore no makeup, wore the same clothes every day. And I wrote and wrote and wrote.

That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.

Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.

I love different roles, just getting into it, something that's the complete opposite of who I am.

Work is the opposite of creativity.

Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite.

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

I can't wait until I have my children. I love the idea that they don't have to do something that they have no interest in, that they can do something completely opposite if they want to.

In 'Mirror Mirror,' I played Prince Charming's side kick Renbock, who was pretty dandy, hapless and innocent. Other than that I've tended to play the complete opposite! I've played gritty, hard characters, generally tough people.

When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.

I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.

'City of God' and 'Slumdog Millionaire' are both films that I really like, but they are stylistically the opposite of what I wanted to do.

Everything about acting was either the opposite of my personality or it just didn't seem like something I wanted to be a part of.

Of the opposite sex, I have the moustache and, in general, the face.

Most of the time when you're around the opposite sex, you kinda have to put on a show and not completely be yourself.

What I do is good for Russian opposition. What I do is I speak freely on the things and items that were never discussed loudly with Russian public for years.

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.

If you think about it, hip-hop came out of nothing. It was a response to oppression.

I'm just comfortable in front of the camera. I'm like the male Oprah.

People always ask me: Is it the music? Is it the masks? No, it's all of it. It's Slipknot. It's the optics, it's the masks, it's the music, it's the performance, it's the records.

If you're not an optimist, forget being an artist.

I'm always trying to find optimistic ways to express myself.

I have a desire that I want to make people feel happy through my music. I'm always trying to find optimistic ways to express myself.