Quotes About Expression

I'm not a very good communicator, so maybe that's why I write about talking.

When I make a dress that someone wants to put on and somebody else wants to take off, then I know I've got it right. Because when someone looks good on the outside, they'll feel good on the inside.

All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.

Good storytelling appeals to me - good writing.

For me, clothes are about individuality. When I wear things that are different and it works, it makes me feel good.

Getting on stage and performing and standing under lights is such an unsettling experience - in a good and bad way - but it's the only place I can go to feel comfortable.

What's really good is African drum music.

I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.

Watching a good actor is the best way to learn.

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

I'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

My parents are both really, really funny, and my little sister is a really good painter, and my other sister is a really good writer.

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.

I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.

Good writing is good conversation, only more so.

All good writers express the state of their souls, even (as occurs in some cases of very good writers) if it is a state of damnation.

I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen.

Hmm... well that would be good, but if you plan on adding that, better include the lanczos option (for good quality).

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

We start to feel not good enough and we withdraw our hearts energy and sensor our authentic expression, and that hurts!

When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job.