Joanne Froggatt Quotes

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

I still take acting, singing, and dance classes. I think no matter where you go in your career, you can always learn more and better yourself.

You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.

When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing 'Mozart, Mozart, Mozart.' I said, 'No, I want to sing all the other stuff.' If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.

You're always in a different headspace when you make each record, so hopefully they're all different. You just pick up things that you wish you hadn't done on the first one.

I'm always driven to keep doing something different and better.

If you look at my career, you'll find that the same record doesn't show up more than once. I try to challenge myself with every project.

I learn everything with my every film. If we stop learning, we would stop growing as an actor.

A new project can offer you a new challenge.

In my career, I'm always trying to do something different.

I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would do something more for yourself.

My constant focus is on being better. Should I be doing multimedia video production? Or seminars on the Internet? How can I do what I'm already doing in a more forceful way?

If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.

I want to experiment; I want to keep growing. I didn't want to just sit back and rest on my haunches and do the things I knew I could do for a while.

You need to reinvent yourself every day when you are doing creative work. I always say that the moment I feel I'm at the top of the mountain and I cannot do more, I would be finished. So that's why I always feel the earth quake beneath my feet. I always feel myself on the fire. Because I think this is something that gives you the right adrenaline to work and go forward in your professional life. I have reinvented myself, believe me, many times in my life!

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

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.

The whole point for me is to change as much as possible. If I've done one movie, I've done that, move on.

Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.

An artist or writer always has to move forward. All the time you're trying to improve yourself, or at least look at ways to improve things or make things better. I'm not really one to harp on previous records. I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.

I think all actors want to change. When you do something many times, over and over, you want to do something fresh. But movie is still my business. A lot of action actors want change, but no studio wants to spend money on something that is not guaranteed; not proven. I think it is very difficult. It is hard to change.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.

If you're not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career

For me, I am constantly forcing myself to evolve, because, I think, to stagnate creatively - there's a certain death that happens with that. Because if you're not moving forward and you're not evolving, you're devolving, and I don't want to go backwards. I want to be better at what I do tomorrow than I am today. I don't want to be worse.