Elaine Stritch Quotes

I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone.

For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

But I've always tried to make the best of fear, then, because without fears there's no art.

Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.

I loved musicals, and I loved Barbra Streisand, and I loved Louis Malle. My tastes were very bizarre, but the thing they all had in common is that they took me out of my life and made me feel something.

As an actor, I believe that theatre is the one of the most immediate and exciting mediums to inspire young girls to succeed.

I always look for inspiration, and the creativity of artists is an essential element to my life, my work, and my happiness.

I'm trying to be the coach. My actors are my players. They're doing things that I'm too cowardly to do myself.

There is inspiration all around us.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.

I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do.

You know, all kinds of people inspire me.

I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length.

I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.

I think people who are creative are the luckiest people on earth. I know that there are no shortcuts, but you must keep your faith in something Greater than You, and keep doing what you love. Do what you love, and you will find the way to get it out to the world.

I do worry that it's impossible to write something original, that there's nothing that a human hasn't already thought of. But I can put it out of my mind and get on with what I'm doing.

A lot of kids are broken, and it's hard for them to believe in anything. But you have to have an imaginative mind and tell yourself, 'Hey, I can do whatever I want to.'

I think the most important thing you can do is to keep drawing no matter what. And to not be afraid of drawing whatever interests you. If there is something that you want to draw, to make, then I think you should pursue it and not let anybody tell you that you can't do it.

I like poems that inspire, that make us think and reflect. It's like putting love into the world for whoever picks it up.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.