Ramy Youssef Quotes

Hopefully I'll be successful with the singing, but there are so many other things I want to do, like acting. I'll do them one at a time first!

One of the things that's been nice about my career is that I've been able to do so many different things, and variety keeps your creative soul fulfilled. I'm constantly looking to find new things to do. It's just project to project for me. You never know where the next thing's going to come from.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.

I dreamed of being an artist.

It isn't about games, for me, personally, and it never really was. It was about creating something - anything - far bigger than yourself.

My advice to women who habitually gravitate toward musicians is that they learn how to play an instrument and start making music themselves. Not only will they see that it's not that hard, but sometimes I think women just want to be the very thing they think they want to sleep with. Because if you're bright enough--no offense, Tawny Kitaen--sleeping with a musician probably won't be enough for you to feel good about yourself. Even if he writes you a song for your birthday. Don't you know that a musician who writes a song for you is like a baker you're dating making you a cake? Aim higher.

Creating and sharing beautiful things has provided me with the inspiration that we can do things we never thought we could do and that we will get to see wonderful things we never thought we would see.

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

I would be daft to say I wouldn't like to try Hollywood. But my main dream is to keep working. Keep loving what I am doing.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

The more I see and know about life, the more ideas I have and the more I want to make art.

I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now I've decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do.

Basically, I would be happy with any profession where I got to be creative and make things.

I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.

Most of my friends who got shows right away are still just doing shows, and they have no need to create.

I want to create a thousand paintings, maybe two thousand paintings, as many as I can draw.

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!

I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not me at all.

I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a challenge, whether it's big or small. Or that it finds me. I don't have like a career plan. Maybe I should, but I don't.

I never thought much about success early on. I only thought about being a comedian - or just being in show business, is really more accurate.