Quotes About Originality

There aren't that many monsters. It's very hard to create a new monster.

There's so much art out there, and I'm happy to see people who are drawing monsters that are very simple designs.

I am begining to look more and more like my miserable imitators.

I want to avoid becoming too styled, too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else. They start out with something individual about them, but it gets lost.

More or less, I am always saying, 'Let's do what has not been done.'

More or less, I am always saying, 'Give me more. Let's do what has not been done.'

That's what I care about most. That more people are making and more people feel like they are creative.

If you can write and create original characters, do your own show, develop your own material, it gives you more power than just waiting around to be hired.

You just got to be yourself. That's what people respect more than anything.

More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

That's what I love more than anything, just creating.

I never wanted to write 'Mamma Mia!' or 'The Book of Mormon' - they're not my thing, I don't care about them. What I do is very different.

It has nothing to do with commercial success. You cannot calculate in your head how to put the mosaic together to make a commercial film: that's out of the question.

I am definitely not like the hottest young actress, the most beautiful or whatever. I have my own thing going.

Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else. It is hard in this day and age.

It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.

The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

As far as I'm concerned, freedom is the most important thing to creativity. You should feel free to write in whatever way, whatever language, feels comfortable to you.

When you're growing up, the most important thing is to try to not change yourself too much. Be you, because everyone else is taken.

I make up new lyrics to well-known lullabies. Mostly because I don't actually know a lot of the lyrics.

Also, it's risky to try to duplicate earlier success. Magician had a certain charm to it, mostly due to my choice of lead characters, that I would be hard put to duplicate.

It feels like a lot of times when I'm watching people perform, they're just going through the motions and checking boxes. Costume - good, hair - good, make-up - good, death drop - good; it's like they're just going through a checklist of what makes a 'good performance' but it's not entertaining, it's very disposable.

You start comparing yourself to other people, you end up trying to be that person. You've got to be your own person, do it your own way. You can be motivated by somebody, but you don't have to take after them.

There was a point of time when there wasn't anything new coming to me, but the same old scripts. But, the script of 'Thira' motivated me.