Alicia Machado Quotes

I love acting, but music is so much more rewarding because it's more personal.

I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.

I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.

I just want to do a movie musical and then if I could do some recording stuff, that would be amazing! I would die a happy woman! I really would. It doesn't take much!

I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.

I didn't start making music in order to be famous.

I may not be much good at most things, but if I didn't have the pleasure of planning and installing shows, and doing it better than anyone else, I would have stopped buying art many years ago.

When I do music, I do it for me and my fans.

My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it.

The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.

I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.

I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling.

I'll still try to nail acting jobs, but with 'Eastbound,' creating it is what gives me the ultimate pleasure at the end of the day.

I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.

Painting completed my life.

I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.

Rather than trying to create an audience, just try and create music that feels good to you.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music.

I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

We all take from our artistic endeavors what we as individuals need, to make the process unique and fulfilling to ourselves.

I know how difficult it is to make a career in the arts, but even if you don't make a career of it, don't lose it as a hobby. Artists often end up in jobs that have nothing to do with their art. But that side needs to be fulfilled - don't give it up.

Writing is its own reward.

In the right situation, acting on television can be extraordinarily satisfying creatively. But that's incredibly rare. Otherwise, it can be like working in a really remunerative coal mine. That's the down side.

I'd hate to be a writer forever and never perform, and I'd hate to perform and not write. I get sad if time has passed and I haven't written or made anything. I'm an artist.