Nicki Minaj Quotes

My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

Rap has so many possibilities that need to be explored. There are different factions of rap, but some are in a rut. Rap doesn't have to be about boosting egos and grabbing your crotch and dissing women. There's a way to make political and social issues interesting and entertaining to the young rap audience.

Bollywood helps in enabling a platform for many artistes.

I have so much more fun doing stand-up. I can't even begin to explain.

Tales of Tacobella' showed that I can rap.

Comedy and drama are like two different sports; they both require athleticism but they're different.

I don't like family stories forcefully mixed with commercial elements.

I don't like to focus on just hip-hop because with hip-hop, I can only do so much; with a vocalist, I can only do so much, but the limitations are varying.

I guess the dream would be to do movies, and keep people updated with my videos.

I love to be in the entertainment space, and my aim is to create new content and entertain people, whether it's in movies or on TV.

All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.

I have to do films for myself, films that make me learn. I also have to be an entertainer.

I like being someone else. 'A Prince' is not about me, but I can pretend for the three minutes of the track. It's great being able to do that, 'cos I enjoy telling stories.

I've been very passionate about storytelling ever since I was a kid. I really don't remember a time when I didn't want to be an actor, and ever since I could remember, I had a really extravagant imagination.

I'm old-fashioned. I think William Blake and people in the Renaissance people were multi. Look at da Vinci, he was involved in science; and Michelangelo was dabbling in poetry. Both of them were painters and sculptors but they also involved themselves with architecture. I honestly don't know what happened in the '60s and '70s. If you sang rock and roll in America at that time or were involved in expressing yourself through music like that, then many thought you couldn't possibly be an artist. That thinking is archaic.

I love telling stories and acting and entertaining people. I don't want to make fun of people.

I don't think it necessarily makes me want to go back to my 20s, but what I love about playing any type of character is the escapism.

It's much more liberating as a artist to feel like you can approach each page and each panel with the way that inspires you the most. I think the thing that bogs down a lot of artists is that you're kind of stuck drawing in a style you've developed.

I love to act, I've always wanted to be an actor. I think that acting and fiction go nicely together - being able to visualize language as something you perform, not just something that's there on the page.

You'd never be able to convince someone to give you money to do a bilingual story where you're not translating half of it - you'd drive people crazy. But in comics, you can do whatever your heart desires.

In my opinion, trying to guess what readers want is the wrong approach. You have to tell your story as best you can and as true to yourself as possible. You have to be honest and fair and vulnerable and foolish and brave, and not care what anyone thinks of it.

Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.

I think that's why I keep being drawn back to television, because I think it's one of the most creative outlets.