Creativity quotes

“He'd always have to do some kind of art, y'know, usually defacing something. He never had idle hands. It just came out of him. He had to express himself.”
Krist Novoselic - Himself

“Creation must be total for the director from beginning to end. I'm convinced that the present failure of Hollywood is because of this. To divide, in art, is not to conquer.”
Jean Renoir

“Acting isn't really a creative profession. It's an interpretative one.”
Paul Newman

“I would give up everything to have good health. But then again, I'm always afraid that, if I lost the stomach problem, I might not be as creative.”
Kurt Cobain - Himself

“If these Celebrities didn't want people going through their garbage or saying they're Gay, they should not have expressed themselves creatively...”

Dan Castellaneta - Homer Simpson

“When I moved to Kansas City I asked the question: was I going to be an actor, or an artist? From then on, all I thought about was animation.”
Thomas Ian Nicholas - Walt Disney

“Acting takes not only concentration, it takes creativity; it takes... your soul.”
Farrah Fawcett

“I'm going to go home, mix some paint, and try to create something original.”
Alan Rickman - Ed

“I like to improvise. It's like playing Jazz.”
Iris Apfel - Herself

“- Abe: Um, I'm blocked, I can't write.
- Rita: Why?
- Abe: I can't write 'cause I can't breathe.
- Rita: What would get you breathing again?
- Abe: The will to breathe, inspiration.
- Rita: You need a muse.
- Abe: I've never needed a muse before.
- Rita: I hope you're not going to send me back out into the rain after sleeping with me.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Abe
Parker Posey - Rita

“- Colin: I am a big fan of your work.
- Nate: I wish I could say the same.”
Colin Mochrie - Colin Frost
Portia Doubleday - Nate

“It’s definitely a different process than live action, and the creative can do some shifts over the course of the production.”
Chris Renaud

“I can feel myself getting better when I listen to your pencil. You've always sketched me better than I was. But what you draw, I become. You made me beautiful. And now you're making me strong. Such power in you.”
Eddie Redmayne - Einar Wegener

“I don't have any rules 'couse I would always be breaking them so it would be a waste of time.”
Iris Apfel - Herself

“Sometimes it scares me to think where it's coming from, you know? Like... There's someone else in there, not me. Well... What if I...What if I lose it and never get it back? What would I do then?”

Paul Dano - Young Brian

“All the respectable, straight-arrow guys were busy doing what they always do, which is be respectable. Which meant the rest of us could run around acting like crazies, which is what we did best. I miss those days.”

Joey Slotnick - Steve Wozniak

“- Vincent Smith: Shooting out the tires or chains dressed across the highway and the way we had you lying by the side of the road next to the old Chevy we set on fire. You know what I mean, the traps!
- Ida Smith: Oh sure! But how come they're so important to you?
- Vincent Smith: Well, because they give me a chance to be creative.
- Ida Smith:...” (continue)(continue reading)
Rory Calhoun - Vincent Smith
Nancy Parsons - Ida Smith

“When you're making an independent film what you don't have in time and money you have to make up with creativity and diligence.”
Matthew Lillard

“I think creativity is spiritual.”
F. Murray Abraham

“I don't want to be famous as a movie star and have the whole world love me, I want to be a creative actress.”
Juliette Lewis

“I met this homeless man who had never owned a shirt in his life. He had taken his pants and worn them as a shirt and I thought it was so creative. He was liberated from the conventions of fashion.”
Julia Stiles

“Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep.”
Catherine O'Hara

“- Crow T. Robot: Science and Industry!
- Tom Servo: See big men sticking screw drivers into things - turning them - and adjusting them!
- Crow T. Robot: Build your very own Atom Storage Box!
- Mike Nelson: Bringing you state-of-the-art in soft-serve technology!
- Crow T. Robot: Removes lids off bottles and jars of all sizes - and it really,...” (continue)(continue reading)

Trace Beaulieu - Crow T. Robot
Kevin Murphy - Tom Servo
Michael J. Nelson - Mike Nelson

“Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives.”
Richard Charles Hastings Eyre

“Everyone in my family is in the film business; I knew I wanted to be creative and it was important in my family to be artistic.”
Sofia Coppola