Quotes About Expression

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

I'd get sent home from the first audition of So You Think You Can Dance. My dancing is sort of controlled spasms. I fully accept it might appear ridiculous. But it's passionate!

I was a little girl with a pot belly and Afro puffs, hyperactive and overdramatic, and I found the theater and I found my home.

You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is where I want to be.

Every movie I make. That's my hideout, the place I don't quite understand, but feel most at home.

When I have a day off, I won't spend it at a Hollywood party. I'd rather be at home with paints and a blank canvas.

I've been on stage since I was five years old and I feel really at home there.

Poems aren't postcards to send home.

I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.

Normally I don't listen to my songs. I hear when I'm in the process of creation, of course, but not when I come home, for example, and I listen my album, and this is different.

If I'm on skates, I feel at home no matter what I'm doing. If they wanted me to sing and dance I think I could do it just becauseI was on skates. When I'm not on skates, though, I feel very strange.

I'm totally at home on the stage. That's where I live. That's where I was born. That's where I'm safe.

I think because I was brought up in a Christian home, I was kind of careful not to swear in my lyrics.

I grew up in a very artistic, cultured home, but without any kind of spirituality. My parents were secular materialists, so I saw art as having an alternate value.

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

I make home movies-therefore I live. I live - therefore I make home movies.

I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate.

Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.

Whenever I started writing music, it just naturally led itself there. As I started to tell my story, it's where my home was. It's just a very natural choice.

The theater is who I am - it's where I feel the most inspired, the most at home, the most useful.

Yeah, anybody can go in with two turntables and a microphone or a home studio sampler and a little cassette deck or whatever and make records in their bedrooms.

With languages, you are at home anywhere

I'd rather be home alone, painting.