Quotes About Expression

People often say that an actor 'plays' a character well, but that's an amateurish notion. Developing a characterization is not merely a matter of putting on makeup and a costume and stuffing Kleenex in your mouth. That's what actors used to do, and then called it a characterization. In acting everything comes out of what you are, or some aspect of who you are.

Gorgon say that Callisto was a woman who laugh all her life but never smile once.

The two men who bring guns to the ghetto don't know what to do since when music hit you can't hit it back.

Weeper stare at me hard then laugh. Nothing like a Weeper laugh, it start like a wheeze then somewhere, and you never know where, it explode into the biggest thing in the room. Who teach this little black man that he can laugh so?

I don't really care what other people think about art, sir. Either you get it or you don't, and it seems pretty stupid waiting on people to get it when you could just as easily enjoy having more museum space to yourself, thank to one less idiot telling me how his four-year-old daughter could do that.

Kimmy's not really talking to you. She only needs a witness, not an audience.

En eso soy como el Cantante porque a él también le encanta hablar, hasta cuando toma la guitarra y crea sus rimas con «ismo» y «cisma» lo que está haciendo es hablar. Y hasta cuando rima «ismo» con «cisma» está esperando que le contestes porque lo que aquí hacemos es conversar. El reggae no es más que un hombre que habla y conversa con otro hombre, conversando por ambos laos, como digo yo.

Little pussy like me still have bigger cock than the two of them, she say. She pull the gag out of Sacco mouth. —What you gonna do, Miss

and they purr and ooh to my purr

Maybe I should have grabbed my own cock skin and smashed it off with a rock.

You, inquisitor, are a man who collects words. You collect mine.

I goin' call her Lilith. You can call her what they call her.

What you looking at is the only way I don't feel like being me is labor, like I holding myself together all the time.

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, simply drop it.

Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.

Some people have censored so much of themselves for so long that they forget what it is they do feel and think.

As is often the case, these groups were more skilled in analyzing the perceived wrongness of others than in clearly expressing their own needs.

While we may not consider the way we talk to be "violent," words often lead to hurt and pain, whether for others or ourselves. In

Don't do anything that isn't play!

Steps to expressing anger: 1. Stop. Breathe. 2. Identify our judgmental thoughts. 3. Connect with our needs. 4. Express our feelings and unmet needs.

I've just become aware that for thirty-six years, I was angry with your father for not meeting my needs, and now I realize that I never once clearly told him what I needed.

appreciation expressed in this form reveals little of what's going on in the speaker;

I was struck by the crucial role of language and our use of words. I have

It is my belief that all such analyses of other human beings are tragic expressions of our own values and needs.