Quotes About Inspiration

I played with so many musicians and some of the musicians would have something I want. I steal a lot of them, and I mash it up, I mash it up into my chords.

Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.

I don't want to steal anybody's story. I very much want to use the stories that I hear to get lost in my mind, to tell a larger story.

When I'm actually creating music, I try not to listen to the hip-hop records that are going on, because I think, subconsciously, we steal from each other.

All writers steal. You might as well steal from the best.

I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent.

I love telling stories from a kid's point of view because they don't really see all the obstacles in front of them. They're resilient, and sometimes adults can steal that from them.

When people ask me where I get my ideas, I lie. I tell them I draw inspiration from the news, the world, my dreams. Or I joke and say that I steal from other writers. I lie because I don't know where ideas come from, and I'm afraid if I look too hard, they'll stop coming.

I have definitely emulated my mom's style more than anyone's. But that may be mostly to do with how often I steal her clothing.

I'm a great collaborator. I really am. I will steal anyone's idea if it is a good one.

People will steal ideas and put them into songs.

There's so many great coming-of-age movies to steal from, and I feel like I just tried to steal from them all equally.

I didn't start writing music until I was a sophomore in college. I would steal my roommate's guitar and sit on the front porch and kind of blend this weird spoken word and these little melodies over simple chords; that really started my whole journey as a musician.

Growing up as a kid in inner city of Baltimore, Maryland, the way I played the game, I used to always steal the basketball.

I talk to a lot of European coaches. I got friends over there that I steal stuff from, talk to, maybe have them look at what we're doing and say, 'Hey, what would you do differently?'

I've always done that since I was in second grade watching the varsity quarterback at my father's high school - trying to steal reps as much as I can.

This photographing is really the business of stealing.

After kids, the desire to improve as an actor remains, but time becomes hugely important. I want to do good work and do it well but then be at home. I love hanging out with my children, seeing how they behave, and stealing ideas off them. You can't do that if you're in a hotel, on a plane, or a film set. It's not real life.

They're stealing my ideas. They're imitating my shots.

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

Inspiration is one thing. Stealing is another.

If you were brought up in the '40s, a kid in Ossining, New York, hanging out at the poolroom and stealing, how can you think, 'Here I am in Ossining. I, too, can be a movie star!'

It's so funny, I'm always stealing from Moliere, and nobody ever notices. I steal from him willy-nilly.

I think of the Jens Lekman in the songs as a completely different person who's stealing my stories.