Jason Statham Quotes

I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

As an actor, I don't really think you find yourself. I mean, once you find yourself, I think it becomes boring and you become set in your ways. I think, as an actor I think it's not a bad thing but more of a gift. It's something you're always doing as an actor. You're adjusting constantly.

I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.

Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.

It really is individual for everyone, but for me, theater is where I learn and grow, and that is always a good thing.

Every role that you accept makes you grow in some way. It's part of the creative process.

It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.

To work on great material, what you really end up working on is yourself, your own humanity.

I think I am looking as an actor to find ways to push myself into places I haven't been before as a human being.

No, I feel like my personality probably influenced the character, more than the character influenced me.

Almost any film that you do is an opportunity to open you up and make you more aware of an area that you might not be thinking about. That's what is kind of cool, or one of the cool things about this profession.

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

The real road, to me, was within the actor, within myself, within my own personality. How much Jeffrey can I find, and how much of Jeffrey could I access? What parts of Jeffrey have I never used for Hank or for George or Oscar? - and that was a delight.

Any characters that make me think, 'I don't know if I can do this,' are the ones I most want to do. I don't want to do the same thing over and over.

I find that with dance - and with the arts in general - because I want to grow in my performance, I have to come face to face with my own personal challenges.

When I choose a script, I ensure that I get to contribute to the film in some way and, in turn, grow as an actor in the process.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on toward the more adequate image.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself. Self-transformation and the transformation of others have constituted the radical interest of our century, whether in painting, psychiatry, or political action.

When I am making music, I am growing at the same time, ain't I?

I do certain things that, maybe, nobody else knows why I'm doing. But it's all - it all has to do with - to grow as an actor.