Marti Noxon Quotes

You hope to be a part of something that makes you a better artist when you leave.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

Every role that you accept makes you grow in some way. It's part of the creative process.

It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.

It's important for me, when looking at a role, to decide whether or not to take the journey of that character. Will I grow as an actress? And will I grow as a person?

I just want to keep getting roles that challenge me to be the best actor and the best person I can be.

One is never done growing as an artiste. So, it's important to find roles that challenge me and make me learn new things.

Perhaps I might be satisfied, momentarily, with a work finished at one sitting, but I would soon get bored looking at it; therefore, I prefer to continue working on it so that later I may recognize it as a work of my mind.

I love develop as an artist, to push my envelope, to grow, to make mistakes, to learn from them and to try and be the very best that I can be while I'm on this earth.

I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

I think everyone goes through chapters in their life and there was a time when I wasn't feeling terribly positive about what I was contributing to film, or wasn't feeling as if I was going in the direction I wanted and I re-evaluated what I was doing.

I don't know, as long as I get to evolve and grow as an actor and as a person, that's the stuff I'm after.

I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

I wrote in the 'War of Art' that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.

My profession has helped me to grow up.

I would like to look back on my career and be proud of what I've done.

I look back at my filmography, and I'm pretty jazzed with the stuff I've been part of. They're all movies I'd like to see.

I'm still working on my career, still trying to learn from other artistes and develop my skills and my style.

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

I really just want to continue to challenge myself. And I want to continue to grow as an artist. I never want to stop.

My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.

I just want to do shows because you get to see, over all the seasons, the person grow, and you get to grow with the character. That transformation, for me, is what I love about my job. I get to learn about myself and challenge myself and grow with the character. For me, it's a whole process of learning and growing.

During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and 'style' as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.

Obviously, when you finish something like 'White Collar,' there are so many opportunities to just do something similar because people want that kind of thing, and I really have tried to stretch myself out, for better or for worse. I hope that I'm able to get to continue to do that, as an artist, and I'm not the guy who shows up to be charming.

I've been lucky in my career. I've worked with some of the greatest filmmakers and actors around. I'm so proud of some of my work.