Quotes About Creativity

There's no shame in stealing - any actor who says he doesn't is lying. You steal from everything.

As an actor, it's my job to make everything interesting and exciting and new. If I'm not doing my job well, then I'm stealing.

With 'Sweetback,' I just put it together a little bit at a time. I didn't do it on anybody's grant. I did it like any other young executive - by cheating and stealing!

Inspiration is one thing. Stealing is another.

Hopefully, I'm not stealing scenes from other actors, because then they won't want to work with me.

Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.

It's so funny, I'm always stealing from Moliere, and nobody ever notices. I steal from him willy-nilly.

I think of the Jens Lekman in the songs as a completely different person who's stealing my stories.

I don't actually read that much. I like movies a bit more. That's how I come up with ideas - by seeing things, hearing things, recycling things. Stealing things!

I've been stealing from the Alien films throughout my entire career.

Stealing something from Apple is the most innovative way to be seen as an innovative, digital-first company.

Although there's no one I really pattern my game after, I am a firm believer in stealing stuff from other people.

I'm not in favor of stealing music.

Everyone steals from something or someone.

Everybody steals my lines.

You can't complain about everybody that steals your sound. You'll be fighting for years trying to figure out how to make people not steal it.

When somebody says that a comic steals jokes, it's the ultimate betrayal of comedy.

I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.

It's important for me to not be put into any type of box because that steals the fun of acting. I want to do everything.

I've always said fantasy is sort of 'stealth philosophy'.

As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.

'Night Mail' belongs quintessentially to the age of steam. It is impossible to simply go with the idea of remaking it.

My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.

Frankly, I'm a drummer; and when I wanted to let off steam, I would just go and beat the hell out of my drums.