Jim Parsons Quotes

I loved the world of imagination.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

Acting is an art form. If you are not creating something that's unusual and informative and at least has the possibility of being illuminating, then you are not into it as an art form.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

I follow my inspiration to wherever it goes. I do want the fans to feel the fun and excitement about it, and I like for people to be able to make their own interpretations about my work.

I'm just making 'Threadworlds' out of the things I love and that I'm passionate about learning. When we created 'Avatar,' Michael DiMartino and I did the same thing.

It's fun because you can escape and learn about what other people's minds have created. It inspires you to think maybe you could come up with a creature yourself. I like that.

Writing songs is no different than explaining to somebody what you dreamed last night: No one ever gives you crap for what you dreamed last night. "I was laying in my bed, and all of a sudden a stallion jumped on my bed and the next thing I know I was in Mars but it looked like my kitchen"... That's kind of what I do with my songs, write them in a dream-like manner. It's up to people to swallow it however they want.

If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic....Authors arrive at text and subtext in thousands of ways, learning each time they begin anew how to recognize a valuable idea and how to reader the texture that accompanies, reveals or displays it to its best advantage.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

When I was in fourth grade... this wonderful teacher said you didn't have to write a book report, you could just talk about the book, you could do a drawing of the book, you could write a play inspired by the book, and that's what I did. I got to be so famous. I had to go around to every school and perform it. It was just so natural and fun.

These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their own stories and comics, and I don't want them to feel stifled by 'perfectionism.'

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.

He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'.

I love being creative. I love acting, but I also love directing because you get to have a vision for the whole and bring that vision to fruition.

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.

I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.