Quotes About Creativity

It's just funny that anybody would care at all to take apart the words that I write. It's kind of cool!

It's funny, because I sometimes feel that I'm most creative when I'm pregnant.

I'm sure every pattern has been covered, but it's nice to think you might dwell on some that other people don't.

That heightened dynamic can produce interesting, funny ideas that are phrased in ways that surprise even you, as the performer.

I do try to compress a lot of information into what I do. It's funny.

Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny.

You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!

With freestyling it's not about "Say something funny!" That has nothing to do with it. It's about becoming quicker on your feet and knowing that your entire day can go into your rap if you're on it.

There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, "Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth." It's funny.

Cooking? Oh we were great, you'd take anything and melt cheese on it, and the one who could guess what it was didn't have to wash up!

The improv stuff, that's always surprising so a lot of times that's really funny.

As an actor myself, the opportunity to sing and dance and be dramatic and be funny - it's really irresistible to actors. You get to show all sides of your talent.

The three main leads [in Townies] were Lauren [ Graham] and Jenna [Elfman] and Molly [Ringwald], and then Ron Livingston was on it as well. There was a lot of people to write funny stuff for.

It's funny because my main awkwardness around writing the song had little to do with the method.

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

It's funny, but I think my stories - the good ones - they're much smarter than I am.

I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices to make it more entertaining.

I wanted to be a "serious artist." Serious artists didn't tend to be funny. But that didn't get me a lot of attention. And just growing older, you can't help it, you take things less seriously.

When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.

Inspiration strikes at very funny times.

I tend to take [ to Bridget Jones Diaries] something that nearly happened, or might have happened, and then exaggerate it to make it funny and to make it tie into the themes.

A lot of my early pictures are, I think, quite funny. And these days I tend to look for comedy more and more.

I can go for a week without a guitar, but it's not even funny if I don't get to surf for a month.