Josh Keaton Quotes

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.

The main factor in any form of creativeness is the life of a human spirit, that of the actor and his part, their joint feelings and subconscious creation.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

I got in touch with the creative process between the age of 14 and 16, mainly because I was alone so much.

A puppet, for example, is just a piece of wood, a couple of rivets, but put them together, and if you know how to do it, and the audience's imagination joins in with this, then a miracle will come out of that machine. That is what we and the audience do in the theatre - we create miracles in that space.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

The good thing about working alone is I get a lot done and I can experiment more. The bad thing is I miss out on the gregarious, social way that most musicians work.

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

You know to me, being a good actor, the most important quality is you've got to love to play, and to just be open to anything.

You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.

Nobody was playing the soprano saxophone and certainly nobody was trying to do anything with it. So I was all alone. I didn't know that at first.

Anyone who has been given the gift of being opposite an actor who gives and gives, it just makes you better.

I believe a kid who is playing is not alone. There is something brought alive during play, and this something, when played with, seems to play back.

I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers. I know that there's some actors who like to be left alone, they like to be very independent, but I actually really enjoy the teamwork.

The only thing that's better in a group versus being by yourself is the companionship. You have to do a lot of thing by yourself as a solo artist. But it's cool. It's worth it.

While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

Creating is a lonely thing in a lot of ways.