Huma Qureshi Quotes

It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.

I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff. And I think, even today, that's how I'm able to work and move between so many different genres - I want to be part of what's happening, I want to make new things.

I do not want myself to be restricted to a pigeonholed kind of filmmaker.

I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.

I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

I get bored doing one thing only. I've been very lucky to explore a lot of different artistic territory and I don't see why I won't continue on that path.

I still maintain several different outlets of artistry, like my music, photography, writing and all those things. I don't pigeonhole myself into one thing. I do all sorts of things, and that's so important to me.

I take my craft seriously, of course, but I don't feel the need to always play a certain character or a certain part or persona. I'm not going to cut something out of my life because it's not 'my image.' I want to be open enough that if I love something, I can do it, and it will add to myself as an entertainer.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.

I like to experiment, and as an actress, I always thought it's good to be open about a lot of things.

I don't want to be stuck to any specific genre.

I love being with artists because I'm always open to getting into something.

It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.

All day long, I'm creative, and the second I get a little tired of any given medium, I just shut that area down and go to the next room. I just go do something else.

I hope to always be doing some low budget things.

Our culture has kind of let the concept of the Renaissance Man die out. We don't really tell the kids that it's okay to bounce around the world, work odd jobs, and do six different things.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

The first album I started out, I just did everything completely alone. I think it has to do with confidence. The more confidence you develop in your own sound, the more you can open up and alchemize that with other people, just set it free, and not feel challenged by that.

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.