Julia Louis-Dreyfus Quotes

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

The performances make you want to get back out there and try something new and challenge yourself.

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!

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

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.

Being involved in movies is my passion. What's gotten me off the mat is the sense of the child in all of us. I feel like the same guy as I did back in the mail room, but with more wisdom, from the depths of experience to the heights.

Songwriting is like going to church. I'm connecting to something, and it's rewarding in really important ways. I don't need to share it with anyone to feel good about it.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

I don't think of work between albums. Of course, I go through regular life and I live and I experience different things, good and bad, and it does help me, but I don't think about writing or what I'm gonna do with whatever's going on while I'm going through it.

Beginning to create again was something that I took for granted but I never will take it for granted again.

When you are pushing yourself to not go back to the same well, you're gonna come up with something different, or you'll find songs that are different.

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working.

Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

I used to be on the kitchen floor, crying, wasted and thinking of lyrics. That was the only way I could create - as a tortured artist. I've learned that you can be stable and taking care of yourself and still create beautiful work.

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.

I was successful and I enjoyed modeling, but it got to a point where I felt like I had 'been there, done that.' I wanted something that would inspire me and challenge me. I needed something that required more creativity. I started writing and I started auditioning. Simply posing in front of the camera was no longer enough.

It never gets boring for me because there's so many different things to explore in the studio. The studio's become the sanctuary that people have come in and found new things out about themselves, as weird as that sounds. But it's true, I'm no different. I've made some crazy hard records, and I've made a jazz album.

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

My whole goal is to make good records and keep myself inspired and able to accomplish what I need to accomplish.

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

I did an internship at the Ardent theatre company in Philly after dropping out of college. I was earning $165 a week building sets and cleaning the toilets. Cleaning toilets is a good way of getting in touch with your creativity. That's when you find out if you got anything going on in your head.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

I just want to keep being creative, and I want to feel inspired by a role, and I want to keep acting.

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.