Amy Sherald Quotes

I'm a rather multifaceted person - or at least I like to fashion myself as such - so my dreams are multifaceted. For example, I had a dream of winning a Grammy, right? I've done that three times over.

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!

While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.

You need a big ego to be an artist.

I think my music speaks for itself - it backs me up.

I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral.

Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.

I feel like I'm one of the more creative artists in the game. I think I'm going to be here for a while.

What I tell everyone, and I really do for myself is, I have a long-run dream, which is I want to work on stuff that I think matters.

You move to New York. You want to be the biggest, most fully realized version of yourself you can be. A lot of that is fueled by this desire to not feel small, and to make a name for myself and establish myself in a way that wasn't expected of me.

I knew I wanted to be creative but didn't know how.

Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either!

When you know what you're passionate about and what you want to do, just go for it and own it.

If I leave any legacy behind, it's just the idea, just the theory that you admit to your ambitions, and you don't let people tell you you're wrong to have those ambitions.

If you got talent, you just have to do you.

I think the theater is where you stand up, and you say, 'Here is what I have to offer.'

I was too embarrassed to tell anyone I wanted to make a movie because I thought it would be seen as a vanity project because I was a singer.

I knew I had to be on stage. I always felt like there was something bigger and better for me. If not that, I would be a hair stylist for sure. I almost enrolled at Vidal Sassoon hair academy in Santa Monica.

Harlem World' is all about me doing my thing.

I was the first person in my family who was ever interested in dance, or fine art of any kind for that matter - I came from a very humble beginning in San Pedro, California.

I've always wanted to create. I didn't ever want to just be a football player, so I'm just bringing all these childhood dreams together to try to accomplish the things I want to do before I die.

I'm always gonna do my own thing. I wanna be something - whether I'm 19 years old working at a pet store, or I'm 19 years old with a No. 1 record - I wanna be the biggest I can be to my crowd, no matter what my crowd is.

Everybody from my childhood growing up had to have that confidence, that self-will. Go out there and do something, be something, prove that you're gonna be more than this.

I wear my inspirations on my sleeve.

I know how hard it's been for me to get my thing out there.