Quotes About Expression

On paper, swearing takes on a different attitude. It can make you sound very angry when you use it a lot.

I find a lot of swearing in films. And I guess that shows my age. But I also feel that where they say those words, they could just as easily have written other words.

It doesn't excite me as a writer to write some swearing or sex scenes, because they don't have any emotional content.

At a personal level, I rather like it if you can create characters and storylines that don't have to rely on being crude and swearing.

If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.

Dancing is a sweat job.

I am an actor, and although I love music, and at times can't live without it, I eat, sleep, breath, sweat, and bleed acting.

I would just sweat so much. I'd be dry when I run on the stage. By the time I got in front of the microphone, it just, just like a river pouring out. I don't know what made that happen. It took five years for that to stop happening to me.

Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

I like people that can strap on a guitar and don't sweat the fact that you have to come up with a song in an hour. I want to work with someone who won't feel like they have to play along with Jason Molina. I want them to just have the confidence.

There's a relationship in the reality with how theater is presented - you can't experience that anywhere else. When you mess up, you mess up obviously, when you sweat, you sweat obviously, when you cry, you cry obviously. There's no hiding in theater.

I sweat on stage a lot.

First I made a dress because I was pregnant and I wanted to be the most beautiful pregnant woman. Then I made a sweater because I wanted to have one that wasn't like anyone else's.

It's funny, one of my most solid carpet moments happened in the very beginning, before I started thinking that I needed all these other people to do my hair and makeup, and pick out my clothes. I wore a cheetah sweater and a red hat, and it's one of my favorite looks, even still.

I feel like, you know, some people like to wear colorful stuff. Some people like to be blacked down, and some people just want to be colorful. Some people just have weird problems. I'm never going to wear a pink sweater. Some people just do it because they feel like they can do it.

When I was 35, all of a sudden I thought maybe it'd be nice to knit a sweater.

I like to wear jeans, Converse and a sweater, so from the back I can sometimes look like a boy!

Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.

I wanted women wearing my sweaters to give the impression they were naked. The aim wasn't to impose outfits but to stay as close as possible to women's bodies and their freedom of movement.

For me, I like that, how do you say, bohemian sort of look. Baggy sweaters to really fitted pants - I love Rick Owens's stuff, for example. I am really into that kind of grungy style.

I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase.

I just feel my body clock is different when it comes to making films than other directors. Being on set, and sweating, that feeling eases me more than actually when the movie's over; being on set, moving around, to me feels more relaxing than being done with the movie.

Sweats and some flip-flops is what you'll get from me, or you'll get some six-inch pumps and a ruffled shirt.