Quotes About Art

Music was my first love; acting was something that wasn't important to me early on.

I admit, music is my first love. I enjoy acting but I couldn't give up my music.

Theatre is my first love.

Theatre was and will always be my first love.

Theatre is my first love, simply because I started out with theatre.

Films are my first love.

Music is my first love, and it's not something I'll ever stop.

My first love was being a dancer.

Acting is my first love.

Theatre is my passion and first love for it is in this medium that I get to feel human-to-human contact.

I was connected to the theater, it was my first love, where my career was focused, on interesting ways to tell stories.

Directing is my first love; turning an actor was rather accidental.

I have always believed that an artiste needs to respond to a story first. One has to feel it in order to live it.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

Every artist wants an audience, and it's incredible to me how books take on a life of their own and reach people whom you could never meet. That's what got me interested in writing in the first place.

When I read Alison Bechdel's 'Fun Home,' it was the first time I saw drawings that looked like me.

I don't know if my songs fit in films.

I have never fitted neatly into the arts section, I don't think.

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.

Fitzgerald was a modernist.

In terms of comedy, I never did five-minute sets or clubs or anything. I just started doing shows. Coming from that theater background, it never crossed my mind that I should start doing five-minute sets.

I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!

I want all types of people to look at my work and see themselves, just like I watch a Reese Witherspoon movie as a black woman and can empathize with her because we have had to internalize whiteness in that way to survive.

The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.