Chanel West Coast Quotes

Growing up, the last thing I ever thought I'd do is be an entertainer.

I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

Once I started doing stand-up, everything fell into place. That was when I started acting more; I felt like I'd found my place in the business.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

I think I would not be who I am if I did not have experience both as an audience and as a performer in those early days of my career. It taught me what entertainment is all about.

I'd like to become a singer who expresses myself more openly.

I feel like I'm getting closer and closer to myself with time, not only in terms of my career choices, but the choices I make within one role or performance. I used to compose characters that were farther from me, but I find now that I like to craft a subtle composition, a subtle change in your essence.

I was very, very shy when I was little. Acting lets you access all those different parts of yourself to make the character authentic.

Acting was my classroom in many ways and I always believed and I still do that acting is not just about pretending to be someone else, it's also about discovering yourself and reaching deeper inside yourself.

Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.

'The Voice' gave me a chance to show people the side of me that is an artist. People didn't know what that would look like or sound like. It allowed people to see that potential.

One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.

I've felt emotions onstage that I never felt before; it has strengthened me as a person and as an artist.

After I graduated, I tried Broadway, which was difficult for me. It was tough to get a part on Broadway, so I just started talking to audiences at different social gatherings, and little by little I became Don Rickles - whatever that is.

I'd never imagined myself in a band. So the fact that I've had such a long career without really naturally pursuing it is really astounding. It's taken me a long time to accept what I do for a living and actually feel like I have anything of value to add to the equation.

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

I wanted to be a pianist but it just wasn't my thing. I guess I wanted to stand up rather than sit down.

I'm interested in pursuing roles that allow me to push against my own walls, my own constraints as a human being, and to find out where I'm capable of going. In real life, I'm not very good at feeling emotions, so I like to do it through my work.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

I hardly knew anything when I first arrived. I had to learn how to act as I went along. After about a year I got a grip on what acting was all about and it started coming straight from my heart; I wasn't just saying the words any longer.

The exciting part of acting, I don't know how else to explain it, are those moments when you surprise yourself.

I want to explore more sides of humanity and myself. That's what acting is about.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.