George Carlin Quotes

Self-expression is the dominant necessity of human nature.

A subject emerges from an interaction between my self, my I, and my medium.

Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?

My poems - like my family life, my life with friends, my teaching - these things express who I am. I don't feel any extra responsibilities or relishes or necessary evils in them. They are part of who I am, with all of those customary desires and doubts, purposes and confusions that come along with being a particular person.

I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing.

I think talent, especially in acting, is being wholly yourself within the context of yourself.

All that I am is me. So I'm not really a poet or a writer or an actor or an activist; I'm me, and these are things that I do.

I'm starting to find my own style.

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

If you took my reading and writing out of my head, I don't know who I would be.

The music I make, I'm different.

I think every person is so unique. I think every woman is so unique, every man is so unique, every artist is so unique.

Everybody has their own style.

My sexuality is part of my music, part of my identity.

Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality.

The best way to be original is to be yourself.

You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to part with it, in death, or even imaginatively, in art.

I don't think I'm a weirdo in a bad way. There's just a lot going on in my head.

I think it's really important to make things your own in your voice. I started when I was 23, and in the beginning of my career, there was this expectation of a young designer being edgier, cooler, more downtown. But I was never that person.

Everything evolves naturally in life. It's not limited to beauty or music. The more experience you get, the more you find out about yourself. Everything becomes more and more an expression of the real you. I can play different characters. Sometimes I feel tomboy or glam or playful. When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

I feel terribly vulnerable and 'not-myself' when I'm not writing.

You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

I believe that the imagination is the passport we create to take us into the real world. I believe the imagination is another phrase for what is most uniquely us.