Charles Peguy Quotes

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.

You have to add something of yourself to the portrayal.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

When you're recording classic songs, you've got to kind of make them your own, and you can't always worry about what people are going to think.

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.

We live through life, but we live through art, too. And in art, as in life, nothing is generalized. No one thing is a copy of the next. Everything is individual.

My attitude with covers is, make it your own or else leave it alone.

The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.

I didn't look at the previous 'A Wrinkle in Time' movie. I wrote ideas down from the book, but I didn't really want to copy that Meg. We're the same, but we're different at the same time. I wanted to make myself Meg. I didn't want to use somebody else or use a reference.

You have to try and make the role your own and not copy anyone else.

Find your own technique.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

I think talent, especially in acting, is being wholly yourself within the context of yourself.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

I feel like the point of being an artist is to have your own voice: to do it the way you would do it and not the way anyone else would do it. If you're a strong enough writer, then that voice is going to come out all the time, and I can't stop it from coming out, no matter what I do.

I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.