Quotes About Creativity

As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.

I feel like with every performance that I see, I get better because I've always thought - while I'm watching people perform - of what I would do.

No one set that I ever do is the same. I mean, if I go to a comedy club, and I perform three sets, all three sets are different because anything can happen in between sets.

When I see a friend play Hamlet or see an inspirational performance, I absolutely get excited by the idea of changing things up.

What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it.

I like a performance, a live performance, so I like little mistakes because that's what makes perfect - the mistakes.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

I really appreciate that: to walk into an environment where everyone is serious and dedicated to creating the best performance possible and challenging themselves to figure out the most interesting way to approach the work.

I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.

I'm committed to an honest expression, not necessarily a performance.

You act in a movie, and at the end of the day, the director and editor decide what your performance is.

What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best.

When I started doing drag, I always put together multimedia elements for live performance.

If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.

I watch a lot of movies, I watch a lot of old movies, I watch a lot of great performances, and I watch a lot of great directors.

I can imagine Dad joking about how hard it'd be to get an actor to give back when it's hard enough to ask them to give a good performance.

It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself.

I always want to do things that are different. I don't want to be doing the same thing, the same performance constantly, and it feels like most people tell you that they are the same. However different you feel might approach them.

I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't match what the person was doing when they came around and the camera was on them.

It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.

Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

We've always had a dark atmosphere to our performances, so it sort of developed along those ways.

My individual power is limited. I want to use my high-profile way to wake people up to take action together to do good things. I can only awake them with my performance art and creativity.