Quotes About Expression

All your experiences, the places you go to, the encounters you have with people, and, of course, your cultural trappings all make you who you are, and who you are makes your music.

Acting is all about creative ideas and sharing, so the more places those ideas come from, the better.

I saw the excitement, going to different places, being able to explore emotion in a healthy way.

I have kept journals at different times in my life. And a lot of my early notebooks became places where I would just think on the page, trying to parse what I was feeling, to find out what I was thinking.

I've always liked the electric guitar better. Even though the acoustic can be a very sexy and mysterious instrument, I can go to way more places with an electric.

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.

In many senses, creativity and 'plagiarism' are nearly indivisible.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

I think making a film is as much knowing what you don't like as what you do like, and avoiding the things that you don't like like the plague and making sure that they never appear onscreen in any shape or form.

To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

I've watched my mom take a plain piece of paper and create something beautiful out of it, and I think that kind of manifested for me in taking a character from the page and bringing that to life.

You will not see me dressed in plain, modest outfits.

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

I am just a plain Jew; I mean have no training.

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

No one is a plain white room. I hate going into a home that is done to the nines but has nothing do with the homeowner - no knickknacks, no art that has anything to say about the person who lives there.

I am a business owner. I'm a teacher. I think Justin's actually kind of plain, kind of nerdy. But when I morph into Alyssa, I'm like this... Well, this creature, everything that Justin couldn't be.

Everybody likes to see a good soft-shoe dance and a song to go with It, but how often do you see It? It's a lost art, just plain hoofing, and I've never heard of anybody who didnt enjoy doing it or watching it.

I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.

I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.

I don't really plan too much ahead when I write, because otherwise, I get kind of bored.

I didn't have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.

I'm very cautious about talking about how actors got where they got, as though there is in fact a plan or a way. There is no plan, there is no way, there's no sure set, there's no handbook, on how to get to be an actor.