Quotes About Expression

Language is a virus from outer space.

People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.

My lab used to do gene expression and genomics, and we did a lot of sequencing samples from virus outbreaks.

I'm not interested in replicating 'Hedwig' like a virus.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

Clothes allow you to see yourself in a different light. They can transform you instantly and have a very real, visceral impact. Clothes become symbolic of who we are.

Jacobean plays, before Shakespeare, were particularly visceral.

Fine-tuning a play like 'Uncle Vanya,' which is already well-known to the people playing it, is not so much a verbal exercise as it is a visceral one.

I wasn't always totally interested solely in music as a sort of visceral expression of people in unison and synchronized, a federated expression of a group of people. I loved it as a wallflower, as a fan, but when I was in it, I always felt like I wasn't built for it.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

I used to have the most visceral response to having my photo taken. I felt like instantly bursting into tears and running out of the room. I hated all the attention, which is such a stupid thing for an actor to say.

You never really know why you become an actor: it's a visceral thing, an emotional thing.

The reason you write something that is exciting and visceral is to force people to hear what you have to say, especially if you're in any kind of marginalized community where people don't want to listen. You have to come up with tricks to make them listen.

I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.

Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.

A musical, in its true form, is where emotions reach a height where true spoken word cannot be enough, and you must sing. That's all it is. It's not posh; it's not out of your reach. It's the most visceral way to tell a story.

As an actor, when you're winning the moment over, there's a truth to your intention. You might laugh at it or you might cry at it, but I think your visceral reaction to it is a reaction to the truth of the moment.

It's all well and good to turn in a beautiful poetic phrase that ends up on a pillow but I want there to be a visceral response to what I write.

I try not to obfuscate or to be to obscure or to be too cerebral. I like to work on a visceral, emotional level.

Flamenco is the most honest and visceral music. You have to be sincere when you sing it. If you're not, it doesn't work.

We don't want to categorize our music. Some people say you need a definite musical direction to give a group visibility.

It's important that queer people get visibility, particularly when they look, act, and speak in the way that they're comfortable with.

I have a platform and the visibility to take a stand and do it in the right way.

The authentic self is the soul made visible.