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Quotes About Expression

I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.
~ Frank Gehry
I actually studied with The Groundlings.
~ Tyra Banks
I studied dancing a little bit when I was young.
~ Stephanie Zimbalist
The Soviet Union had only one party. You couldn't express yourself freely; you couldn't admit belief in God. And yet this terrible regime understood that human beings have to express themselves, through music, even at a bad level. All kids studied music automatically, just as they did maths or languages or sport.
~ Andris Nelsons
I've been dancing all my life and studied at Joffrey Ballet when I was 13 and singing all my life.
~ Melora Hardin
I studied classical opera, so I was always singing in Italian and German and French.
~ Wang Leehom
Improv is mostly what I've studied.
~ Ellie Kemper
I never studied fashion design.
~ Betsey Johnson
I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
~ Susan Sarandon
To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what I wanted to be, a composer. Acting got me sidetracked.
~ Dirk Benedict
I studied and performed and even taught mime years ago.
~ Tom Bergeron
I studied French in high school and German in college and I once took a 24-hour Italian crash course. English has by far the most words in it of any other language. Our money might not be worth anything anymore, but the language is.
~ Roy Blount, Jr.
I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt they didn't love the stuff buildings are made from.
~ Thomas Heatherwick
What's important is that people realize that I can't be put into a box musically. I've studied all forms of music; I know probably more Jay-Z songs than the biggest Jay-Z fan. I've studied R. Kelly to the Isley Brothers to Stevie Wonder to Sting and Sade. You don't have one personality every day. You don't have one mood.
~ Trey Songz
I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.
~ Anton Corbijn
I hate how things must be classified. How this is applied to musicians implies that they somehow contrive their products and have studied the demographics of the audience.
~ Trevor Rabin
I studied structured improv, where you start from one position and see where it takes you. I like spontaneity. If you set yourself up to do the same thing every night, you may not connect as well to a different audience.
~ Jillian Hervey
I studied piano for seven years and play for my own enjoyment.
~ Janet Yellen
I've studied live shows and artists for so long. I got the tour documentaries and all that and watched them. I love a show. I love an artist that can do all of it.
~ Kelsea Ballerini
I did some musical theater and studied a little bit of acting as well.
~ Kristian Nairn
I kind of connected the dots, like, 'Oh, we're just saying stuff. We're just saying things that make sense, so let's just say them like you say them in real life.' It was my first and one of my only acting lessons 'cause I never really studied acting.
~ Megan Mullally
What I love more than anything in the entire world is making music. It's what I studied in school.
~ Maggie Rogers
I haven't studied acting formally, so my 'university' was watching a lot cinema.
~ Ishaan Khatter
There was a period of time when I studied ballet a lot when I was growing up.
~ India Eisley