Quotes About Discovery

It was like putting your foot into a pond and knowing that I wanted to dive into this. It wasn't even just acting. It was this medium, film. I had to explore it.

For me, acting is like a pool you dive into. If you're lucky, you find what you need, then get out again.

I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.

It was very interesting in my world, because I grew up as a fan and I did not know that there was a thing called R&B, pop, country, classical - I just knew that I loved music.

If pop culture is a pool, it never hurts to dive into the deep end once in a while.

I did think that acting would be much more like being a pop star. Now I'm here, I can't think of anything more different.

I feel more like an artist than a pop star, and I accidentally fell into what I do. Everything was just an experiment.

I took two years out to find what sound I felt passionate about and what I liked making. After the last album, 'Peroxide', which is quite poppy and acoustic, I felt really bored.

A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

I always have a big idea. It pops up every two to three years.

I'm, like, an Internet fiend. I will research anything and everything that pops into my head.

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself.

My first port of call was Los Angeles. That's where I laid my first foot on America.

The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture.

I went to a 'Divas' search because I live in L.A. It continued from there. The final portion was in-ring training. I fell in love with it the first day.

I'm very open to Portland.

The best books I read as a child were set in far-flung places, but also portrayed characters experiencing a life far removed from my own.

It's part of my DNA as a Portuguese. Like many of my ancestors, there's that need to discover the world - exploration is in my blood.

There's a weird intellectual approach to filmmaking, where I pose a question to myself and use the film to try and answer it.

I like thinking about what could be out there, and I love the questions that sci-fi poses.

I'm still trying to discover my position on my own artwork and hopefully at this exhibition someone will come and tell me. I'm open to listening to criticism.

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.

Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.