Melanie Martinez Quotes

I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

Entertainment is often a medium in which you can put yourself front and center.

I always do my own makeup, hair, and styling, including in videos and on, like, album covers.

People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.

The thing with me and The Strokes and talking about stuff is I hate reading about it. I wish they just didn't write about me. I mean, I'm putting out a new record, and it's like, 'The Strokes are getting back together!' If they wanted to do that, why don't they just write an article on The Strokes? I don't like being the spokesperson for the band.

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

It's great to blow the image that people have of me out of the water.

I don't read magazine articles that I've been in.

Of course I've done musicals here in London.

Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.

I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.

To have the privileged position of being the guy who is responsible for shaping the entire experience for an audience as opposed to being just one instrument in that orchestra, being an actor, it's all-encompassing.

I feel like I've got a nice little niche where I stay just below the radar, which is perfect. I just don't want to be known for anything other than music.

I'm not ashamed of my social media following, my Sports Illustrated swimsuit shoot, or the tough time I had in my LPGA debut, but these small facets of my life are easily manipulated by the Internet to get views, and they don't define me as a person.

I'm very selective about my scripts and about how I am projected on the screen.

Clearly when there is a character based on you on 'South Park' or 'The Simpsons,' that is something that sticks with you for the rest of your career. But I'm fine with that.

I have done 'Sports Illustrated,' but I don't regret it because it portrayed me in a positive way - as an athlete.

There was a really long period of time when, if the newspapers ever referred to me, even if I was talking about, I don't know, cake making, they would put 'lesbian Sandi Toksvig.'

I never call myself a Kennedy cousin. In fact, when I signed my contract with Bravo, I made it very clear that they were not allowed in promos to refer to me as a Kennedy cousin. I'm not that person. I don't feel it.

Your job as a director is to study the show, understand the show, understand the vibe, the tone, the characters.

As much as I love to travel and be on stage and perform, I knew at a very young age that I wanted to be a choreographer and a director.

I'm a band dictator.

I never said, I am just a beauty queen or just an actress.

I love putting on shows. I absolutely adore it - that's why I've been doing it now for so long.

It was important for me to have other outlets outside of 'Basketball Wives' to represent myself and who I really am and what I really would like to put out there.