Colin Jost Quotes

When you get to really involve yourself with a piece and the other people, and you get to feel like it's a community and you're all building something together, it helps me to produce better work, I think.

When you have a situation where you're hanging out with 20 or 30 other artists, then there's insane amounts of creativity in the room.

The more I get to know more artists, the more they inspire me.

I want to do everything, so when I started I wanted to be an actress, and I've always written funny things. I love that; it gives me a real sense of achievement and joy. I also love presenting. I'd never been interested in it before but found it pretty fun and easy, and I really enjoyed working with a group - standup is so lonely.

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.

That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

I kept on writing and illustrating, for this is what I did well because I loved it.

I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing.

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.

There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.

Whenever I meet someone who's talented, I always want to write something for them!

I studied music; I studied theater. I went to school for it, so I kind of treat it in that manner, that whether or not I can hang out, I've always been the one to go in my room and chill.

I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.

Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.

My husband, David Simon, and I make our livings using our imaginations.

I love writing, and I love making arts programmes.

When I'm working, I'm pretty busy with that, but when I'm not, yeah, I like to make music. I sing in jazz bars and stuff, and then I mainly paint every day. It's kind of like a different side of my mind I like to use, and it keeps the other one fresh, and yeah, writing, I've been writing with some friends.

I used to make fun of those actors who talked about the theater as their temple and their place of worship. I'm not to that degree of zealotry or idolatry of theater as this holy place. But it's a place where I get together with people who do what I do, and we understand each other in that respect.

That's what I care about most. That more people are making and more people feel like they are creative.

When I travel, I connect with creative people in all different fields and disciplines. It's sort of just to keep my finger on the pulse of what's going on. I think that's important.

Theatre is all about the process and the sense of community that is created. You have weeks of rehearsal, time to explore your character and get to know the other actors. There is opportunity to try off-the-wall ideas, to find layers and nuance over weeks. You become like a second family with your cast.

I was always a composer since I was a kid, but the BMI Workshop is where the networking really all stems from. So many writers and influences and ways of communicating all sprang out of the time I was a member of that workshop.

My peers inspire me, especially being a newer artist.