Daniel Mays Quotes

I want to do everything I can possibly do to step outside the box.

I always say that it's about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place.

I try not to do anything by formula.

I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.

I have always lived my life outside of the box. I find it to be way more fun there.

I like taking up challenges. I prefer working with scripts that are different and veer from the tried and tested. So far, it's always worked.

You just go for it and see what works. There are no rules.

If you want to be in the world I live in, which is a creative world with new ideas, then you've got to get away from the norm. You've got to go for it.

The innovator, however, must in the first place be discontented, he must doubt the value of what he is doing or question the accepted ways of doing it. And secondly, he must be prepared to take fresh paths, to venture into fields where he is by no means expert. This is true, at least, of major forms of innovation; they make it possible for other men to be expert, but are not themselves forms of expertise

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

It's important to do something outside the box, and maybe that'll inspire people do also do something outside the box.

I like more the fact that I like to think out of the box. Thinking out of the box goes along with dressing out of the box and living out of the box.

I just wanted to make something in the world and worry about the rest of it later and not get too caught up in rules.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.

A scientist worthy of a lab coat should be able to make original discoveries while wearing a clown suit, or give a lecture in a high squeaky voice from inhaling helium. It is written nowhere in the math of probability theory that one may have no fun.

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she re-spells my words and corrects my punctuation, I can't read what I wrote. Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.

Sometimes breaking the rules is extending the rules.

It's important to be unconventional.

I think we shouldn't buckle up our creativity. You've got to experiment!

If designers are willing to take risks, I think buyers should take risks, as well with press taking risks.