Quotes About Expression

I hate plots.

After writing a novel, what is there to say? If a novelist could say it in a maxim, they wouldn't need 120,000 words, several years and sundry characters, plots and subplots, and so on. I'd much rather listen always.

I always try to find some part of a character that exists in me and plug that in.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good. It was the first time that I existed inside a fully-functioning self - one that I controlled, that I steered, that I gave life to.

I like to just plug in and play; I don't use a lot of effects.

There's a phrase that art is something created by the few and admired by the many. Now it's not created by the few, it's created by anyone. They just plug in a drum machine and read some dirty high school poetry.

Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?

Dance is something I really enjoy; it gives me a different kind of happiness, something more spiritual. Plus it's good exercise; I'm happy doing it, and it all shows!

I play in a band called 'Moi non plus' with some friends.

The epistolary form is one of the hardest to write. It's so hard to show something that's bigger in a letter. Plus, you have to have the balance of how many letters are going to work to tell the story and how few are going to make it fall apart.

I love my martial arts and action movies. They give another dimension to the acting world: the emotional plus the physical.

I'd like to produce something with Kanye. Like, my production plus his, I think he'd make something really cool.

I'm pretty into music. Anything with music I love... I'm really big on lyrical content plus a good beat.

Filmmaking is a passion for me. Plus, that is what I do to make a living.

Music is not always going to be a mechanical math equation, where it's one plus one equals two. It's not always that simple.

The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.

One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.

I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.

I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color.

If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.

I'm always gonna have the darker edgy music; it is always in my pocket because it comes so naturally to me.

I have a little pocket journal. I just put the pen on the paper and just go.

A writer has to keep one foot in the street and one pocket empty and be hungry for it.