Michael Horse Quotes

People ask me all the time which I would prefer doing more, but I honestly can't say. When I'm filming, I'm like, 'No, this is my favorite,' and when I'm writing music and recording and performing, it's like, 'This is definitely it.'

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

I don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.

To be honest, I don't think I'm an actor. I'm a creator - or try to be.

My name is Ella; that's who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I'm doing homework. But when I'm up on stage, 'Lorde' is a character.

Early in school, they called me 'the artist.' When teachers wanted things painted, they called upon me, they called upon 'the artist.' I am not saying that I learned my name, animals can learn their names, I am saying that they learned it.

Why do people want to know exactly who I am? Am I a poet? Am I this or that? I've always made people wary. First they called me a rock poet. Then I was a poet that dabbled in rock. Then I was a rock person who dabbled in art.

I think I always knew that I would do something with art because it was the one thing that I knew I was really good at.

I'm not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I'm not that guy. I don't want people being like, 'Yeah, he should have stuck with drama.' It would not be my choice to have critics mumbling that.

The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do when you are ready and acting is what you do when someone else is ready.

My videos represent the artist in me very well, but not the kind of woman I am.

I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.

I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

I don't think of myself as a leader. I am, but I don't think of myself that way. I'm not trying to belittle what I do, but I think of myself as a dancer first. I'll always be a dancer.

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures.

I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.

To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.

OK, I wasn't as successful as, say, Julia Roberts, but I'd spent years in a very respectable career, some big American films but a host of other smaller, really exciting, maybe experimental films, being paid rubbish but working with fine people, that was what I thought I was known for.

Acting is what I do. It's not what I solely define myself as.

I always wanted to be an actor, so part of me is split between the artistic side and the physical side, but then physically I was just born as quite a healthy specimen!

I don't consider myself a musician. I'm an artist.

I haven't ever felt I've had to divide my 'actress' life from the rest of my life.