Tim Minchin Quotes

I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

Everything has been said but not everyone has yet said it.

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals

It wasn't that I was stupid ... It was just that there didn't seem to be a lot to say that someone wasn't already saying.

Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it.

One should always aim at being interesting, rather than exact.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.

I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

The way I choose projects is based on what I think is most real and most interesting, not on what's paying the most money or what's most popular.

I don't want to repeat myself.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

I don't think anyone really says anything new.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes, but that's really not what giving someone goosebumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique.

Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simplicity and composure. There is no reliable formula for originality, and strategies that are distinguished as innovative in their first incarnation can quickly become stale in the hands of lesser artists.

I want everyone to express themselves in a unique way.

I'm trying to be very aware of not repeating myself.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

When you get into comparisons in any way of, 'we want it to be like this' or 'we don't want it to be like this,' it takes away from the authenticity of what you're trying to say and what you're trying to make.