Debra Messing Quotes

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before.

I like to keep doing something new and different so people can't say I'm doing the same thing all the time. I like to challenge myself.

I try new techniques and styles almost every day, so I'm always challenging myself.

I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genres that I have yet to try.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

What's fun for me is to try new things and push myself and not get stuck in one genre or another, or stuck with one character or another.

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.

I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.

I don't want to pigeonhole myself in one character or genre. I want to challenge myself as much as I can.

Of course you draw from yourself, but the artistic nourishment you want to get is be versatile, do something different, and I think I got a chance to do that in a lot of different ways.

I always want to do - take everything and take it to the next step. I don't want to just keep doing something the same ol' thing. Obviously, I could have wrote 'Mother' 20 times and made tons of money and be playing gigantic arenas and whatever, but that's not really what I want to do.

My well-known aesthetic sense, which is so obvious and personal, spontaneously spurs me to challenge myself with different disciplines.

I'd rather risk confusion and stay creatively fresh and stimulated. I feel like I'm growing and challenging myself all the time.

I'm big on showing people versatility. I'm constantly trying to push myself to break barriers and the idea that we have to stay in one lane.

I try every day to do something that I've never done before or make some sound that I've never made before.

I don't know, maybe I just like to mix it up and have a more of an eclectic need to just try out new things and road test ideas and try out a genre that I haven't done before.

I love to experiment, to push myself, and I want people to accept me in roles that I have never attempted before.

I remember on my very first film, which Steven Soderberg executive-produced, he said, 'Try not to repeat yourself. Do things that scare you.' Even if it's a challenge, I want people to say that this guy tried this thing. Hopefully he learned from it.

One thing that feels very important to me as an artist is to continually challenge myself and push myself to do all kinds of different things.

I want to make every film different from my previous one.

I do music that makes me happy by challenging myself to go the extra mile and not do what everyone else is doing.

The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.