Dustin Clare Quotes

As a person and as a singer, I love to try something new. I like challenges.

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

To stay interested in acting, I have to keep trying stuff I've never done before.

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.

When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before.

I love to push myself! Stepping outside of my comfort zone is what will make me a better artist.

I try every day to do something that I've never done before or make some sound that I've never made before.

I want to challenge myself in new mediums; I want to leave myself open to different things.

I like challenges. If you're involved, as one is, in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself. You don't want to repeat what you're done before.

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.

I think that new artistic challenges help you grow both as a person, as an artist, and then they feed back into your other work, and tend to magnify it.

Every movie that I do, I always try and better myself in the next one and try and find a part which is more challenging. It's a little vulnerable to do that, to always push the envelope. You position yourself for a lot more flack or a lot more critique because you're trying to do something different. Sometimes you're good at it and sometimes you're not, but it's a chance you have to take to make life exciting.

Most actors try to do as many different things as possible. I like the encouragement I get from doing new things. I like to feel scared or challenged in the hope that I can pull it off. That little bit of fear creates an energy that I can channel into the performance. And you have to keep tapping new parts of yourself, keep working or you never improve. The only way to improve is to set yourself harder goals.

The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do.

As an actor, you want to push yourself.

I really like to try my hand at everything, and I think it's probably dangerous to let oneself be pigeon-holed, not necessarily by other people, but in one's own mind.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.

I feel like if I consider myself comfortable in something, then that's not exactly where I want to be. And in 'Jane the Virgin' specifically, I feel like I don't have to choose... We get to do drama and comedy sometimes within the same thirty seconds.

I always like being able to do something I haven't done before.

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

The stage sharpened my creative instrument and encouraged me to go deeper and try new things.

You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.