Soni Razdan Quotes

I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself.

I hope to be a producer, a musician, a painter, a photographer - I'm going to push myself to do as many things as I can and see where it goes.

Some of the young kids look for one hit to be a star; that what they're known for the rest of their life... I never wanted to be known as one thing; that is the reason I do classical theater, write, direct and the blessings God has given me... I want to share.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

I love how people in this business push themselves to know themselves, the world, and their creativity better.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It's good that the person I'm being onstage isn't really an act. It's really me.

For me, competition is good; that is what keeps me on my toes and keeps me going. I am always trying to better my own work, do better than my earlier films... do films that are challenging and exciting for me.

Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening, staying active and being creative so that when opportunities do come up, you are in a position to take advantage of them.

Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.

Sometimes when I'm not working, I go and teach at an acting school, and quite selfishly, that makes me feel more inspired to do things myself.

Maybe I don't ever fully switch off, but I think the way I offset that is by splitting my time between film and music. I always want to challenge myself and grow, fail, self-flagellate, and then try again.

I'm a creative person. I love to write, I love to act, I love to perform, I love to create things with my hands, so I do all of these things that are kind of like hobbies in a way. They're things that I love, so it's not like a work-life balance; it's just a work-life marriage.

I like to challenge myself. Whether that's on television or film or on stage, that's what I'm going to go for.

The more I learn and grow, the more I feel fulfilled, and even if I'm shooting a commercial for a car or a computer, I try to deliver a filmmaker's point of view where I can learn from the experience. Then I really enjoy it.

I think, as a performer, the biggest challenge is that you want to do a good job, pushing yourself. You want to go the extra mile every time.

I'm an artist, and I need to work, like everybody. We need to be challenged and that we're getting up and doing something with our lives.

You tend to find the best in yourself as an artist when you're challenged.

I want to work and work on better films, projects and myself.

I think I would've found myself in the arts somewhere along the lines. If you're creative, you find something, eventually.

I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would do something more for yourself.

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.

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

If we want to make meaning, we need to make art. Cook, write, draw, doodle, paint, scrapbook, take pictures, collage, knit, rebuild an engine, sculpt, dance, decorate, act, sing - it doesn't matter. As long as we're creating, we're cultivating meaning.