Lea DeLaria Quotes

You've got to know the rules to break them.

Any time people are breaking outside the norm and playing something that isn't expected - that feels like punk to me.

I'm a sworn enemy of convention. I despite the conventional in anything, even the arts. I paint canvasses on the floor and drove one art teacher out of his mind. But that's just the way I paint best.

Art isn't about following the rules. It's about breaking them.

You have to learn the rules to be able to know how to break them.

You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition.

I never imagined myself doing a one-man show. If I'm going to do one, I'd rather do one that breaks all the rules.

You know that I'm always a proponent of doing things differently.

I'm not a creature of habit. I like to find things from unexpected sources.

To be able to create fully, it's maybe fine that you learn the rules, but you have to forget and to rebel against those rules.

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

I try not to do anything by formula.

When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.

I guess I much prefer the path of the contrarian: the guy who goes against the grain a bit. The careers of the people who I admire deeply - like the Coen brothers and Soderbergh - don't repeat themselves, and they make radically different films at times, and I think that's wonderful.

Originality is dangerous.

There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.

What people don't realize is that when you start making things outside of the convention of what is normal or good or 'best practices,' you're also shedding some of the baggage that comes with the concept of what a game 'should' be.

When you think 'Peaky Blinders,' when it first began it got mixed reviews and people didn't know what to do with it, and it was like: 'Why is there modern music on this?' So I think whenever you do something different you're going to get that response.

The kind of artist I would like to be is definitely versatile. I don't like being boxed in or put into a genre, so to speak.

We do things differently. You don't have to worry about being part of a particular genre. You just go for it.

One does not succeed by sticking to convention.

I hate good taste. It's the worst thing that can happen to a creative person.

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.

To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

I try to please people, to give them a good time, but I refuse to make my act conform to traditional show-biz standards of entertainment. There's a little voice that says, 'Oh, no, you can't do that, that's breaking all the rules.' That's the voice of show business. Then this other little voice says, 'Try it.' And most of the time, when the voice comes on and says, 'No,' that's the time it works.