Quotes About Creativity

I'm an artist, a performer... There's an art to what we do to the wrestling... I don't want to really fight anybody.

I'm a performer, so when I get to any space, I make it my own for that moment and have fun.

I don't want to be just a performer.

I was always a performer even as a child; I loved delving into various characters.

All you have to offer as a performer is yourself.

But I like the process of putting a show together and the impact that Edinburgh has on me as a performer.

I grew into who I always wanted to be as a drag entertainer and performer.

I think there's something for anyone who wants to be a performer in Seattle.

Improvising is writing, too - there was no music and now there's music. So that's composition. And any time you take any sort of a performance liberty, you're making a compositional choice. I don't know a serious performer who hasn't made compositional decisions, who hasn't engaged in the art of composition.

And often, once you've done it five or six times, a performer has to start dredging up emotions from a new place, which is harder to do.

As an artist, you want to form your own identity and be your own performer.

I love to work with performers that are very different to me.

There is just a lot of creativity and theatricality in performers who happen to be gay. Maybe there's a success in numbers, so by the law of averages we are going to get these jobs.

I think there are people with the genes for being natural performers. Sometimes they go haywire and destroy themselves because of it and because they have no order in their lives.

My love of performers is not really different than my love for painters. Everyone's really high-strung and trying to do the best they can.

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

I want to work with performers who really are ready to lose their minds, you know? People who are established and have talent, but who are ready to break new ground and really be cracked open in a new way.

The most evocative thing to me is probably when a writer and a group of performers can collectively put together something compelling that asks the really simple question: 'How do we live?'

There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.

As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am.

I love creating characters that are ridiculous and flawed. To me, the most important thing about comedy is the joy it can bring to the performers and the audience alike. I love making people laugh and not over-thinking things. Some of my favorite moments are when I am doing an improv scene with friends, and I can't stop laughing during it.

There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.

One of the great things about shooting in Los Angeles is you have access to all these great performers. We love working with ensembles, and that process of getting a great group of people together and setting them in motion.