Quotes About Expression

I wish my family had taken more pictures when I was growing up. Instead of always having to draw everything.

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.

Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.

It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.

I hadn't done any professional singing. I had sung in the shower and in my car and sometimes at a family bonfire if there was enough alcoholized wine.

In my family, we seem to have a tortured history of not saying what we ought to and not meaning what we do.

Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.

In our family, there wasn't anything else besides art. Nothing else in the world existed. My father never spoke about going to a movie or listening to music, other than my mother's singing.

Argentina is my country, my family, my way of expressing myself. I would trade all of my records for the World Cup trophy.

You won't see my parents honored on any stamps.

I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

My family is almost exactly like the one in 'Monsoon Wedding'. We are very open, fairly liberal, loud people.

There's a voice when I write. I speak everything aloud. My family is so accustomed to me talking to myself that often times they don't answer me when I am trying to speak to one of them.

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.

There was a lot of creative energy that I had, that I feel wasn't understood, and I think that whole world for me felt like another family, another place where I could feel heard.

I also discovered that I was a poet. From the standpoint of one's family this is probably a regrettable discovery.

And when I look back I recognize now that I indeed do come from a large family of artists. Whether they necessarily realize it or not.

Growing up in an Italian family, you use a harsh tone and 10 minutes later everybody forgets about it.

My family is filled with wonderful storytellers. I lack their gift of gab, so it's a relief to be able to write.

From a very young age, I was singing and acting and performing for my family.

Dad had a sign of his own. MY BEAUTIFUL FAMILY, it read, and then underneath that (AND GUS).