Quotes About Creativity

I've always wanted to do things different, always wanted to be the person who stands out from the pack.

My best bet is to make the most awesome-sounding music that I can possibly make and pour everything that I have into that and hope and pray that it stands on its own.

Rock n' roll is at a standstill, I think - and comedy is taking its place as something exciting.

I really love standup, and I really love writing standup.

Katya Zamolodchikova

I think when you write something as standup material, it forces you to think about how you're gonna tell that story in one way, and then, when you get the opportunity to shoot it, you almost have to reframe how you go about it and rethink the entire process.

I enjoy doing standup, but when I'm 50, I don't know if I'll still enjoy doing standup. It might be one of those things where I find other palettes that I want to paint on and make comedic.

I can't imagine a time I don't want to do standup.

You reach a point when you say to yourself, 'Do I want to keep doing this?' There are other things on my plate I want to do - I've been writing a play; I've been neglecting my standup.

The role of a comedian is to go in and make something funny. That might be a situation where I'm writing, a situation where I'm in control, like standup or something of my own that I'm making, or it might be something like being an actor in someone else's project.

There's no one on the road that I tried to pattern myself after. There's no one in history that I tried to pattern myself after. Because one thing I was told that in standup you want to develop your own voice.

When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'

Hopefully standup will become special again.

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

Unquestionably, standup comedy is and has always been an art form.

I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.

Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

I couldn't have invented crisps. ... I don't really want to be known as the man who invented crisps. ... I invented apples. ... I invented pandas, and caps. I invented soil.

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

You're constantly changing man. But the film's not changing. The film stays the same. That's the beautiful aspect of it.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.