Quotes About Expression

My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.

I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters.

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

That's so different in Hong Kong when I'm using my own mother language, I can treat the line in one thousand different ways, with many different reactions.

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

The dance is the mother of the arts, The dance breaks down the distinction of body & soul.

When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.

My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.

My mother refused to give me coloring books as a child. She probably saved me, Because when you think about it, what a coloring book does is completely kill creativity.

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.

People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality.

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

Like, my mother would have company over, and I would sing so they'd pay attention to me.

Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought.

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

I'm often a crier and many things make me cry. I come from a crying family - my mother cries, my grandma used to cry. It was never shameful to cry. My father never told me men don't cry.

Don't worry about what your mother thinks of your language.

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

My mother was a failed actress, but that was our bread and butter - what we loved most to do was to go to the theater and talk about it and dissect it and understand it.

I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.'