Quotes About Creativity

Movies were the biggest influence on me when I was a kid.

Personally speaking, I think the Beatles were our biggest influence.

When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.

That's the biggest thing: be kind and be original.

Playing is the biggest thing there is.

When you look at the artists who have come up through 'Billboard' over the years, it's incredible.

The average billboard has no more than eight words. It takes a lot of effort to make a beer, rice, or shampoo seem special in eight words.

I'm a walking billboard. That's my pleasure.

The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince.

No one wants to hear me doing my best Garrison Keillor... I think that he's inimitable; he's one in a billion.

Sometimes it's a character you want to play or a story you want to tell. Sometimes it's just to pay the bills.

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

I loved writing fiction. I mean, once I found the character, or the characters, and knew who they were and knew their back-stories, it really - I mean, I went into my studio every day, thinking, 'What's gonna happen to Billy today?'

I think 'Billy on the Street' is a big show, but why do a show if you won't make it original and unique and powerful?

I feel art has the power to bind us.

I don't feel an image can really bind an actor.

I love Cadillacs and name them after birds.

The best thing you can do when you're not feeling funny is go out and get more stimuli from the world, get out and walk around, read a book, go talk to some birds or a dog and replenish the well, as it were.

My 3rd birthday party was 'Funny Girl' themed.

Learning music is a birthright. And you have to start young.

There are bits of me in all my characters.

I couldn't fight, and I wasn't particularly interested in the academic. So I started doing satiric bits in the school bathroom. Guys would cut class to come and see me.

Coming up with comedy is hard, man. Those bits aren't easy to think of!

All my main characters have got bits of me, bits of my family, bits of my friends.