Quotes About Expression

When people talk about being a writer, the first words that come to mind are glamour and artistic parties like Charles Dickens used to mix cocktails for.

Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because, well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk.

I knew I couldn't do what Eddie Izzard does, so I just tried to write some stories that were based, or partly based, on my own experiences.

Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic environment in which we live.

I gravitated towards the field of clothing design, partly because it is a creative format that is modern and optimistic.

A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?

That first writing session, what Dan Hill calls a creative blind date, is always a real challenge, and you bring that back to your partner when you return to writing with them.

Claude Cahun is a fascinating artist - one of the few women to be part of the surrealist movement, she and her partner Suzanne Malherbe took on men's names and made artworks that investigated female identity long before 'The Second Sex' or Cindy Sherman.

For artists to feel a real emotion to your partner is very important.

My mother sent me to dance and drama classes when I was young, and then I got a stage role in 'Set To Partners' when I was 12, followed by Benjamin Britten's 'Let's Make An Opera.'

The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.

Because I'm experimenting so much with gender-bending and listening to everything that happens to me in terms of genderless energies, I have a hard time finding partners that can match me.

I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH.

What I love so much about being a part of Umbro and the partnership is they authentically let me be me.

It is none of anyone's business how I make my films or my creative partnerships.

Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.

I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs.

Authenticity doesn't just mean you're not filtering what you're saying, it's about being able to know and access the best parts of yourself and bring them forward.

I'm interested in playing all kinds of parts.

I just like to do different parts.

There's parts of it that I connect to - being a father and everything - but 'Mamma Mia!' allows me to go out there and be me and have fun. I've never really had the chance to do that with so much freedom.

What you are is what you are, and I don't think you should ever fight it. But as an actor, I feel lucky to play different parts.