Quotes About Creativity

I don't prepare for any role. I go on the sets and do it.

I don't prepare for my characters.

The future of Slipknot is always in doubt. I always prepare for each album as if it's gonna be the last.

To have a basic ingredient that can be prepared a million different ways is a beautiful thing.

While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.

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

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of risk.

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.

My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.

My dad said, 'If no one was giving me acting work, I'd have to be prepared to create it myself.'

My work is my passion so it's impossible to imagine doing all the things I love if I couldn't see - riding my bike, reading an autocue or preparing dishes.

I love food and am very good at improvising when preparing it - it's a really creative experience for me.

Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.

Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.

Preparing for roles sounds so academic, doesn't it? It feels as if you are preparing for an examination! In a creative medium, the preparation is of an entirely different kind, and for me, the ideas flow from the script itself.

The ability to forget is a prerequisite for an entrepreneur.

Freedom is the basic prerequisite for writing.

Don't tell your stories to anyone. You'll be more motivated knowing it's a prerequisite to having an audience.

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

My mom was obsessed with Joni Mitchell; I grew up listening to so much of her music. But it was never a prerogative to emulate her.

I probably started painting when I was in preschool.

Preschool children are virtuosos of imagination.

A child's sense of reality vs. fantasy can be a bit blurred at the preschool age.

In preschool, I would plan out my show-and-tell every week to be funny and exciting.