Reggie Watts Quotes

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed to be. I thrive when there's not much and I have to create it.

I'm inspired by other people, but I don't really try to look like a certain person or anything. I kind of just do what I feel like doing.

Shah Rukh Khan is a self-made man, and he does inspire with what he does. It is foolish to think that one can try and imitate or modify what he does. I have been original in my performances so far.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

Dream the dreams of other men, you'll be no ones rival.

Be the artist you were born to be.

As for me, the only stuff I've ever had success with is when I'm trying to be completely original and not thinking about mirroring what else is out there.

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

It's not an act. I love it. It's totally original. People go, 'What's going on with this guy? Why does he sound so weird? What is going on in his brain. I don't know. Just one day I suddenly woke up with a new brain.

I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.

No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

I don't think anybody came into the movie business to be unoriginal and plagiarising and not having an original idea in their brain.

Comedy is the ultimate truth. Jazz is hitting the notes that that no one else would hit, and comedy is saying words that no one else would say.

People relate to the spirit of the band, which is to live your way and succeed on your own terms. There's no hypocrisy in being successful and still railing against conformity.

To create something you must be something.

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

There are many teachers who could ruin you. Before you know it you could be a pale copy of this teacher or that teacher. You have to evolve on your own.