Quotes About Expression

I never wanted to be an actor and to this day I don't. I can't get a handle on it. An actor wants to become someone else. I am a song-and-dance man and I enjoy being myself, which is all I can do.

For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!

And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain.

The white man gets all the best catchphrases!

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind.

An imitator is a man who succeeds in being an imitation.

Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with Love. I am talent and I do not rhyme with man.

No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!

But I love you, sir: And when a woman says she loves a man, The man must hear her, though he love her not.

The loves of men but vary in degrees-- They find no new expression for the flame.

The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

Let a man of genius make use [of photography] as it should be used, and he will raise himself to a height that we do not know.

One has to regard a man as a Master who can produce on average three uniquely brilliant and entirely original similes to every page.

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.

I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.

What kind of man can name a child Moon Unit?

A man who whinnies with noisy laughter, surpasses all the animals in vulgarity.

"Evil men have no songs." How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.