Paul Dano Quotes

I love to create something new every night onstage; that makes a big difference.

I've always dabbled. I've always nearly written a book, I've always tried painting, I've always tried to make something out of ideas, really. It was never a plan. I never thought, "Right. First I'll get famous, and then I'll do a book.

It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.

I really look up to people who experiment in all areas and I think Johnny Depp is a really good actor to look up to because he's done so many genres of films.

There's no way to really mock up or simulate what I'm doing until I'm there. An exhibition for me is not a statement but an experiment.

The studio is a laboratory, not a factory. An exhibition is the result of your experiments, but the process is never-ending. So an exhibition is not a conclusion.

The studio is a place where I can experiment before I'm prepared for an idea to become a body of work, or a new way of working, or a way of working that can sustain me over a period of time.

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

Barriers have been broken: rappers are singing, and singers are rapping. You might catch a rapper on a rock song, a pop artist on a hip-hop song - there are so many different things that are going on today. That is the same way in which we live our lives; we're all over the place. I like to try different things.

The stage is like a laboratory where you can run theatrical experiments, imposing interesting conditions on the cast or story and seeing how they pan out. Each new play is like creating a tiny virtual universe enclosed by the confines of the stage.

I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing.

My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.

I love to perform live.

One of the things I love about music is live performance.

Genre-spanning is the effort to make the live show interesting. It's also a great way to challenge yourself as a writer.

I got involved in lots of different areas round about 2007, 2008. Just working with lots of different people and stretching myself in different ways. I was working on art projects and working with other writers, just doing bits and pieces, trying to keep busy.

I like to experiment, and as an actress, I always thought it's good to be open about a lot of things.

One of the ways that I think about my being an artist and an actor is... it's an experiment.

There's nothing like performing for a live audience.

As an actor, it's good to try to do new things, I think.

It's important to immerse myself in one thing at a time to do it well, but I could never do one thing only. I will always be a poet and a singer, because I'm interested in bending genres and pushing boundaries of what is considered a poem, what is considered a song.

I always try that my next film is different than my last movie. I would like to surprise my audience; that, I think, is the job of an actor.

I hope people can come along to see us perform and be like, 'What the hell is this?'

I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation.

The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.