Quotes About Expression

You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.

I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.

I enjoyed writing for someone elses voice, but I wasnt very good at it.

I never feel more myself than when I'm writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.

My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out.

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

All good writers are sensitive to clichés and endeavor to avoid them

Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.

As an actor, you think you have to go really far and deep and cry and yell to be good in a scene. Sometimes that's not the point.

You can be anything you want, but when you go against who you are inside, it doesn't feel good.

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

There's no such thing as good voices. Because there's no such thing as bad voices. There are only good actors and bad actors.

I'm very wary with impressions - I don't think I'm very good at impressions, I hate doing them.

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only "liked": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive.

I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.

In my theater days I assumed that you had to get rid of yourself to do a character well, and I don't think I was a very good actor when I did that.

I wish I could take back every interview. Over and over again, I read them later, and either I'm misquoted or I said something stupid. I'm just not very good at it.

I don't think you have to struggle to make good art. I think you have to be passionate to make good art. You have to believe in what you're doing. It just comes from when you lie awake at night.

I am always surprised by who wears my shoes. This is a good thing. There is no type of woman, but all my women like to feel feminine. They are women who are happy to be women.

It's interesting - a lot of good actors are good mimes. But I'm terrible. If I tried to do an impression, nobody would know what I was doing.

All good writers across the board, if they're dealing with real tragedy, they will give you comedy in it. And if they're dealing with real comedy, there will be tragic moments in it.