Quotes About Creativity

I was on the dole once. I loved it. It was only for a couple of years, when I was 20 or 21 and playing in a band. Back then, this was something young folk did - you got your rent paid, a little bit of money to live on, and you loafed around, wrote songs, rehearsed and dreamed of playing Wembley Stadium.

I like doing very small, intimate things in the morning and then, in the afternoon, to be working on something in a big stadium.

I need Netflix to sort of wisen up and give me a staff and a budget, that would be fun.

The hierarchy plays out in the writers room, and you, as a staff writer, need to know your place.

I never wanted to write on a staff. I wanted to perform my work.

Creativity is always a leap of faith. You're faced with a blank page, blank easel, or an empty stage.

I love living on that stage. Without that, I'd die.

I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.

I was trying to pay the bills with poems, and it was easy to memorize my poems, because I'd be riding my bike in California trying to memorize them before going on stage at a poetry lounge.

Comedy is getting more diverse - you can do anything on a stage now. It doesn't have to be just one man and a mic.

I don't know what happens to me on stage. Something else seems to take over.

On stage, you can get away with more, so I definitely use that to my advantage and go bolder with fashion, hair, and makeup. I love a smoky eye and long lashes.

What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.

You've got to remember even the Apple regeneration started with colorful iMacs. So let us first get the colorful iMacs. I think with what we're doing with Lumia, we're at that stage. I want to do good devices that people like, and then we will go on to doing the next thing and the next thing.

I feel that I'm at my best as a person and that I'm coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way or another I think I'll be okay.

A lot of actors will complain about the green screen work, but what you do get to do is what you probably should have learned, from the beginning, on stage. You have to create it in your mind and really go there to bring it. Part of the fun of acting is those challenges. You feel goofy, but sometimes that's a good feeling.

Any opportunity I get to melt butter, I continue on to the 'noisette' stage.

We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage.

Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

One of the safest places to be in the world is the stage.

From the very early stage when I started doing performance art in the '70s, the general attitude - not just me, but also my colleagues - was that there should not be any documentation, that the performance itself is artwork and there should be no documentation.

I don't care what stage or what reason, as long as we're playing.

I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.

I experience a high on stage that I get nowhere else. I feel its like going to the gym so I won't lose my skills.