Petra Collins Quotes

Anything that would kind of label me or put me into a category is kind of what I want to avoid. I like the idea of being completely free, like having no area that I couldn't cover.

I was sort of open to do anything, I was free.

I love the freedom to do whatever I want with style and not be put into a box.

If you confine it, you're confining a whole thing. If you make it spontaneous, so that anything can happen, like we don't want to confine or restrict anything. What we can do, whatever we can let happen, you just let it happen.

I'm definitely more at ease with comedy - that's where I started out - and so it's my first love, so to speak, and I have more of a sensibility for it and more familiar with it. Having said that, I also want to be open to everything else.

I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.

I don't have a specific style. My style is unorthodox; that is my style. So you can't really place me here, place me there, because my style is just to be anywhere, you know what I'm saying?

I don't ascribe to any particular style or period.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

I approach every role from scratch.

I don't want to limit myself as a writer. Tastes change, and I want to keep my eye on the future.

One of my great heroes, John Berger, he's in his 80s now. One of the reasons that he's remained young and all-around fantastic is his ongoing receptivity to new things. I think that's important.

I don't want my work to be issue-based. I want people to be able to read it in lots of different ways.

I have been pretty free-flowing in my batting. I have not let situations change my batting around too much.

Flexibility is youth.

I feel like if you can do multiple things, you shouldn't shy away from them.

I've done a good job of not putting myself in a box, being able to transform, and not being scared to try new things.

I go to each job and open my little briefcase up, and I take out the things that I have or I know. It might be a Swiss army knife, a quart of milk and a ruler. That might be all I can bring to it, but that's what I have.

I like to dip in and out of all sorts of different things. God, if I was asked to be in a show, like a real show, I would be so up for doing that.

That's the secret to a movie career - just keeping an open mind.

Adapt your techniques to an idea, not an idea to your techniques.

I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.

I've never seen a successful person who wasn't flexible, who didn't have a certain degree of flexibility. You have to show a degree of flexibility.

I think it is fatal to specialize. And all kinds of things show us that and that the more diverse we are in what we can do, the better.

Be like a sponge when it comes to each new experience. If you want to be able to express it well, you must first be able to absorb it well.