Quotes About Artistry

What I loved about playing the corpse is that obviously somebody else got to do the physical part. It appeals to the part of me that likes playing character parts and getting the chance to get away from my own physicality.

I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

I'm writing all the time. I want to do this forever. I want to have a box set someday. I can't stop. The day I stop being inspired to write songs, I'll go sit on the beach - until I become inspired again.

I hope to someday be a great actress and a wonderful performer.

I've always thought about someday producing other artists or developing other artists.

I consider those actors who amaze me are somehow less attractive to me than those actors who move me.

And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

I feel like every project I've ever done has had music involved in it somehow.

I get my most creative sort of energy after a show. So I love to go back to the hotel and compose new material. Generally in a rush, exactly. I have to get it out somehow, otherwise I can't sleep, you know.

For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work.

Someone told me the smile on my face gets bigger when I play the guitar.

If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

Whether my lyrics are about love or something else, I always make sure I'm connecting with my fans, and to see their support is definitely a motivation.

On her one glance upwards, enough paintings are created by heavenly maidens on the magical canvas of god.

Maybe the key to finding the perfect song is simply rewriting the lyrics.

I'd like to add her initial to my monogram...

I'd love to be the female Kanye. I think he's so cool and effortless.

'Yeezus, ' I really love it. I think the sound of it is cool.

I'd love to have a Christmas classic under my belt. It's hard to write a Christmas song.

Music is my thing. It's my thing it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me it's Christmas to me religion to me poetry to me.

I love creating things, especially out of metal. There's something truly satisfying about shaping a piece of metal and seeing the impurities peeling away as you weld it into your chosen design.