Olivier Martinez Quotes

As long as you have the acting chops and the desire to get inside a character, you can play anything.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique.

I can't think of anything worse, really, than to try to live up to someone else's expectations of what you should be. You don't make art by consensus.

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.

You don't base records on success; you base it on creativity.

I'm a cliche.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

Genre expectations can kill creativity. If you do something different, it will get hated. The best filmmakers can do everything on the approval list and knock it out of the park. For me, I have a hard time being creative when I have to color in between the lines.

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

Creativity is the greatest expression of liberty.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

I love roles that don't really have a template or a paradigm and force me to create using my own imagination... that really, really turns me on.

It doesn't really matter to me what the rest of country is doing. I'm not caught up in trying to make a record that sounds like everybody else. That, to me, is a record label's absolute biggest downfall.

For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.

I'm constantly trying to be as original as I can.