Maxine Peake Quotes

I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

Acting, for me, is not an end in itself. It's more a means to asking the questions I'm obsessed with about life.

As an artist, you keep learning. You draw out different parts of you.

It's hard to say what you learn acting a part. You find bits and pieces of yourself that are inside the character you play. You locate the relatable aspects of that character to your own life. So, in a way, every part you play forces you to discover things about yourself you might not have learned otherwise.

I know I sometimes come across as being quite dismissive about acting. But I'm not. It's like people reading their diaries in public. I don't want to talk about how I create characters. I find it self-indulgent.

You can listen to 'Cosmic' and truly get to know me, which I think is special.

I learned a lot while working on 'Live From the Underground.'

I am discovering myself as a director all the time.

I feel that I am more aware of my artistry.

I had no precise plan when I started 'Electronica,' but I think it has been a very positive journey for me.

Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it.

I did try painting, but it didn't work. I tried to dance, but that didn't work either. And then I tried to act, and it seemed to work.

If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences.

Ultimately, I don't think you can be a character who's completely alien or divorced from your own personality. It's probably true of every writer - it's probably true of every filmmaker, every songwriter - that, ultimately, every character you create is a facet of yourself.

I don't really compare any of the characters I play; I try to go into them being very open to what the characters can offer and what I can bring to them and then bring a being to life.

There are people who compose from very young. That is not my case. I went discovering myself.

With acting, it wouldn't be about money: it would be about taking my life experiences and using them to create art.

I would say that 'After the Storm' is much more informed by my personal life than my other movies.

As someone whose music is connected to his personal growth, I feel an obligation to follow this muse wherever it leads.

As an artist, one of the ingredients to doing good work is self-awareness, and that's something I cultivate.

In this journey there is so much to my life that I just do privately... I don't really make it a huge priority to tell every single thing that I do every single day about my life.

I feel like, for me as an artist, it takes me a while of living with the tracks and living with the body of work to realize what it's all about.

Most of the films that I do help me learn something.

I want to get out as much art as I can while I'm here, and I seem to get better the more that I do it.