Quotes About Originality

When things become too prepared, the life comes out of it.

When I was preparing 'Kiss Me, Kate,' I did go to the Museum of Broadcasting and watched an old kinescope of Alfred Drake doing the role on a television special. It was interesting, but I didn't feel any need to try to copy him.

When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I went for a kind of preppy, psycho-killer look: I had short hair, grey flannel pants, and a button-down shirt. I think it worked, because nobody else was looking that way at that time.

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

I don't think you can find someone who has my combination of look, talking ability, presence. I don't think you can find an exact copy to fill my shoes.

I'm not going to present myself one way all the time just because it will make me sell best.

'Jane the Virgin' is one of the most original shows that's been presented in the United States.

I always want to approach records from where it feels very graspable. You know what the song's about, but it's presented to you in a way that's like, 'I never heard something like this before,' but it doesn't push you away.

I feel like the biggest key to longevity is maintaining what's special about yourself but always presenting it in a new way. That way, people can never get tired of you.

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

I must never change my way - because of critics who may not like it - I preserve my language and my style.

We have to preserve folk in its authenticity. Else folk will become fake.

I concentrate in my work on preserving and displaying the original flavor from each ingredient in a dish.

All of the American presidents, certainly all of the notable ones, have been pretty original.

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

There's never any pressure on the music having to be something.

What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.

I don't pretend to be anybody else but me.

Artists can be themselves. They don't have to pretend to be somebody they're not.

If I was going to pretend to be the supermom next door, it would've been counterfeit and a lie. I figured I had to write something out of a new place.

I love when someone doesn't pretend to be someone they are not.

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.