Quotes About Creativity

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I am gentle. I think nearly everyone who makes music is sensitive - I don't care how hard they pretend they are.

If I was going to pretend to be the supermom next door, it would've been counterfeit and a lie. I figured I had to write something out of a new place.

Acting is something that I really love when I am doing it, as it is interesting and fun to pretend to be someone else, but I don't ever miss it when I am not doing it.

I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.

Think small. Don't pretend you know the answers. Experiment; get feedback. These are all the premises of 'Think Like a Freak,' really.

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else.

Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

It's fun to be able to dress up from time to time and pretend that I don't wear cleats, a T-shirt, and shorts every day.

It's great fun if you get a good piece of writing and you can pretend to be someone else, tell a story that needs to be told, make some kind of connection. I've always fancied myself as a leading man, but I really doubt whether anyone else sees me that way.

Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.

As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.'

If people knew what made hits they'd make more of them, so to have the illusion of control over one's career isn't something I can even pretend to have.

Children will not pretend to be enjoying books, and they will not read books because they have been told that these books are good. They are looking for delight.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.

I always used to pretend to be different characters - cowboys, that sort of thing. I used to think that the Indians lived over the mountains that I could see out of my bedroom. As I grew up, I started to understand that acting was actually a craft, and there was no question about it, that was exactly what I was going to do.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.

I was always a 'let's pretend' kind of kid.

I like befriending my collaborators because I'd rather make music with people I like than people I pretend to like.

Authors make stuff up. Let's not pretend it's any more magical than that.

I like being someone else. 'A Prince' is not about me, but I can pretend for the three minutes of the track. It's great being able to do that, 'cos I enjoy telling stories.

I've always made music on my own, but I didn't think there was a platform for that, so I thought I had to pretend it was a band.