Jonny Lee Miller Quotes

If you do a scene the right way, you can go home at the end of the day and really feel like you accomplished something.

To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.

The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

It took me a long time to get to a position where I can feel that, with my art, I'm capable of saying what I need to say, and once I finish it, I can sit back and say, "It's done, and I'm okay with that. People can judge it good or bad, and it doesn't matter. I'm okay with it because I said something I needed to say." That's a really hard place to get, as an artist.

I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

Some stuff I don't even put out. I'll just be home, happy, creating something for myself, and then ball it up and throw it in the trash. It's less about trying to prove something or get on somebody's list or make a fan happy or make a hater mad or convert a non-believer. That's not the case for me anymore.

When people appreciate my work, that's satisfying as an artiste.

I feel good when my films get all the love, respect, and appreciation. That is my driving force to do better work in future.

You just get satisfaction from achieving something that you just don't get in any other way than from being creative.

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

I have never expected anything from my work but the satisfaction I could get from it by the very fact of painting and saying what I couldn't say otherwise.

'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

I think the fantasy of being a movie star is more powerful than the reality. So, for me, even if it's not a great film or a great play I'm doing, to know that you went for it. You had an experience that made you grow artistically and personally. What's really satisfying is knowing that you did a good job.

I've had my taste of intense fame, and I've got it out of my system. Now I'm free to choose parts which fulfil me in different ways.

But after that, I was extremely happy with the story and the look of the show at the beginning of season two - everything was working together. I felt like it was finished conceptually.

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

'Marbles' really took so much and such a thorough effort from me that I was so happy to tie that up and have it feel satisfying.

You want the actor to be happy with the movie. You really want the actor to think they did a good job and all that.

People who produce good results feel good about themselves.