Sutton Foster Quotes

My capacity for wanting to create has never faltered. If anything, it's gained momentum.

I'm always around creative people, and I'm trying to work on something constantly at all times.

Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.

At a young age, I really wanted to make music and make my own sort of thing. I'm sure if it wasn't music, it would have been writing, or it would have been maybe painting. I just always had the drive to try and make something with my hands and to just pull something out of myself and shape it and see it in front of me, if that makes any sense.

Don't just consume things, create things

Once I get on something, once I have something that I'm working on, then I become very obsessive. In a good way. I mean,... is there a positive way to say obsessive? It's a good thing and if you're out there and you're working on something right now and you're crazed and you're up in the middle of the night, or you can't stop thinking about it, or you have to keep reading other things about the subject that you're working on or whatever. That's good and I think that's necessary creatively.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

My compulsion is to create things.

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.

I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.

You have to remember you're an artist and get hungry.

I like to have a lot of different creative outlets.

I'm a creative person. I love to write, I love to act, I love to perform, I love to create things with my hands, so I do all of these things that are kind of like hobbies in a way. They're things that I love, so it's not like a work-life balance; it's just a work-life marriage.

There's always hunger to create because I believe that's what I do. I believe that's what I'm supposed to be doing.

My artistry is my baby.

One last thing on objectives - I like to make things, create things, so that's probably been the primary objective all along, even before the ego objective - to make. To record. But why record... that gets back to the ego, a little. Oh, well. Making is good. I like to make things.

Without passion, all the skill in the world won't lift you above craft. Without skill, all the passion in the world will leave you eager but floundering. Combining the two is the essence of the creative life.

I get ideas about things I want to make and then I throw myself into it with everything I have.

I just always thought, I love acting and I love writing. And when I haven't got any more good breath and good energy, then I'll write.

I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.

I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because that's who they are.

I'll never stop working. I want to die in the saddle. A day is wasted for me if I haven't done something even mildly creative.

My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends.

Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.