Roddy Piper Quotes

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.

Part of the very impulse of writing for me is actually wanting to get away from myself.

Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Acting was the place where I could be free and feel confident.

I think being creative and making something that you can look at is so good for your brain and your soul. Nothing beats it.

I have a good time when I'm acting, and bottom line, I just want to enjoy myself and be a happy person, and acting makes me happy. I enjoy it, and it's a good way to escape yourself. You just become somebody else for a little bit, and it's a lot of fun.

I can't think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting. Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

I believe everybody should have a room where they get rid of all their releases. So my room was a stage.

Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself.

I always felt that acting was an escape, like having the secret key to every door and permission to go into any realm and soak it up. I enjoy that free pass.

Creativity is what helps me escape a lot of my inner demons.

We all have an escape. Mine was theater.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

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

Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.

When I am on a long run in a play, I'm not sure how I would fill the days if I did not paint or write. On a basic level, it just stops me going crazy.

Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

It's still an escape for me, painting, so it also takes me elsewhere. I don't think I would do it otherwise.

I'm interested in how artists and writers do this, using art as therapy. Escaping into the worlds we create. We're all victims and few of us are truly free.

Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves.

I don't need the bread, but it's nice to do something creative.