Quotes About Inspiration

I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

Portia de Rossi is a gorgeous woman, and I found it incredibly refreshing to discover that she puts very little stock in her appearance, instead preferring to concentrate on what goodness she can put into the world around her - a choice we can all learn from.

I know it's a stock answer, but besides acting, I'd love to produce and direct.

I look at making records like you make a dish. A culinary experience. The way you throw in a tambourine, it's like spices or herbs. The main part of the song is the stock.

I didn't know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that's what I was going to be.

When I was in fourth grade, I made a song about the part in Stockholm where we come from.

There's this Afghani kid in Stockholm called Phat Deuce who's started sending us his music, and he's amazing.

Frank Ocean called me when I was in Stockholm when I was, like, 17.

My earliest, most impactful encounter with a book was when I was seven and awoke early on Christmas morning to find Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' in my stocking. I had never been so excited by the sight of a book - and have possibly never been since!

I was supposed to be working on 'The Weekenders,' but I was blocked. I got this crazy idea that I would make Christmas stockings out of blankets.

It's great to have the opportunity to reach out to people that don't know much about snowboarding so they can see it and get stoked on it.

Age doesn't affect me. With ALS, I am just stoked to have another year.

If you feel like you're wearing something that you're stoked on, I feel like it actually makes you want to skate better.

Creativity flows when curiosity is stoked.

If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a filmmaker that makes films that have a point, I'm stoked.

I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked, and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it, and you can really just over-think everything.

Actors too need directors who can fire their imagination. The fire needs to be stoked.

You're always super stoked when you see that your song did go the distance and people are recognizing it.

At the start of the band's career, I had ideas for songs and thoughts I figured out, but at the time I wasn't sure how to write music or to finish a song. So for me to have finished a whole album on my own is a huge feat. That would be impressive to 15-year-old me. I think he'd be stoked.

Kristi Yamaguchi stole my heart in 1992, and I've never been the same since.

My father was the funniest guy I ever met. I'm not sure if I stole his stuff or if I inherited it.

I won't lie, I stole a lot of ideas from Giampaolo.

Stole my first name from 'Evening in Paris' and the second from Elizabeth Arden.

When I had kids, I became a better actor. I just stole from them.