Derek Hough Quotes

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

I've always been involved in the visual arts and music.

What part of people is resistant to an artist doing more than one thing? Is it somehow perceived as greedy? Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

I feel like music and acting are so much my love, and they're so much equal in my eyes. I couldn't really choose between the two.

I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.

I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.

Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully.

I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.

There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.

I started playing piano when I was 6. And I knew that wanted to be involved in that form of expression, whether it was through music, or acting, or dancing, or painting, or writing.

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

I have my writing and acting and producing and directing, and my younger brother has his music and his acting.

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

I think they can co-exist. You don't have to put one down for another. I've been bitten by the acting bug, and where it takes me, it won't take away from the music.

I'm sure there are people who think I only do music, people who think I only do theater, and people who think I only do dramatic stuff. I do things that interest me.

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

I have passion for music just like I have passion for wrestling, just like I have passion for creating and acting.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both words and music.

I have sung all kinds of songs - be it ghazals, qawwalis, romantic numbers or peppy numbers.

I never thought of being an actress, I was always singing or playing on the piano.

I've worked towards self-development as an aspiring artiste. I've been most passionate about dancing and acting, so I have followed it obsessively.

Music was something I chose that I came to as a kid, and acting was something that was suggested to me.

I don't think that because l'm a composer I only have to compose music.