Burt Lancaster Quotes

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

I was kind of nervous to put 'Learning' out: it's a lot different. That's who I am. I'm going to push the boundaries.

The creative process has been a little bit of an experience, really - to try and make that work for me. The only way I know how to do that is just to remain genuine, humble, and true to everything I know already in my life.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

The only thing new is you finding out about something. Like nothing's really new, but you reinvent it for yourself and find your inner voice.

I don't feel I have to be Jackson Browne. Still, I like to say something.

On every new project, I try to write in a different way and see if there's a new side of myself I haven't explored.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

If you haven't surprised yourself, you haven't written.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

To create something you must be something.

I didn't start to work until I realized what it was I had to offer. I stopped imitating performers I admired and started just being myself.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

I will never stop questioning. I will never stop wanting more and discovering other things and wanting to do other things. That will always be a part of me, and it's something I've come to terms with.

Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers.

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.

I'm starting to find my own style.

There are different sides to me; I wanted to make a personal film but I would not want to make any film that does not reflect me in it. At least, not right now. I'm just too young to be doing that.

How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I'm also trying to be.

To me, searching for perfection isn't anywhere near as interesting as trying to find your own voice.

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.

We all want to not repeat ourselves constantly, and explore the limits of our capabilities.