Quotes About Expression

Rahman is very very director friendly. He is ever ready to go whichever the director wants, the story wants, depending on the kind of movie or the music you want, and within that he finds his niche. It is a constantly complementary process. At the end of the day he is not pleasing you, he has to please himself.

I keep writing because it is deeply pleasurable to me.

I am one of those guys who could do the most emotional scene and crack a joke instantly. I'm lucky. I'm just like an idiot savant. I have one enormously enjoyable, pleasurable - for me - talent, which is being able to act.

I find writing extraordinarily difficult and not very pleasurable, though I find having done it very pleasurable. I won't lie about that.

There is something pleasurable for an actor to produce something and not be in it.

There's lots of different ways of writing stuff and lots of different mindsets to have, but I think when it's your own creation, it's more pleasurable because you have total control.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.

The thing about acting is you don't want to let on how enjoyable it is or then everybody would want to become an actress. But it really is. It's a pleasure to go and exchange your identity.

People talk about the pain of writing, but very few people talk about the pleasure and satisfaction.

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

I devoted my life to music for a reason, and the reason wasn't because I wanted to get on or make money, but to try to fulfil myself and also to give people pleasure. That's been my credo.

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.

Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided.

I'm acting for the pleasure of it.

It was a pleasure to be a gay eyesore.

The real pleasure in writing this, for me, was discovering how little you need.

Most of the people who act and sing do so for their own pleasure and that of their friends and family.

I think I get certain pleasure from writing what I'm performing.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

Part of the joy and pleasure of English is its boundless creativity: I can describe a new machine as bicyclish, I can say that I'm vitamining myself to stave off a cold, I can complain that someone is the smilingest person I've ever seen, and I can decide, out of the blue, that 'fetch' is now the word I want to use to mean 'cool.'

In life, you have to keep certain parts of yourself in check because you want to be a decent human being. But one of the guilty pleasures of acting is that sometimes you get to let a little something out that you don't in life because it's not right.

The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan.