Nell Scovell Quotes

I always want to keep challenging myself to do something that I don't even have the foresight to know what it's going to be.

I like surprising myself. I don't want to do the norm, do what I'm always known to do, write how I like to write.

My methodology is not knowing what I'm doing and making that work for me.

If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.

The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

I'm attracted to seeing how different I can be, pushing the boat out.

I'm of the belief that you pursue your interests, you pull it all in, and you sort it out later.

Nobody knows what they're doing, so don't be afraid to try things.

When you can surprise yourself, you're truly acting.

You have to be slightly uncomfortable with what you're doing, and you have to be able to try to find moments of newness.

You can't be limited by your own experience.

I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing.

The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the world predictable by reining in creativity and enterprise. Progress as a neat blueprint, with no deviations and no surprise, may work in children's cartoons or utopian novels. But it's just a fantasy.

I've always been somebody who, when I started a picture, never knew what the next picture would be.

It's only when you risk failure that you discover things. When you play it safe, you're not expressing the utmost of your human experience.

If you want to explore things you haven't explored, having people who look just like you and think just like you is not the best way.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.

I don't know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven't done before.

I'm just working and having a good time and seeing what develops, which is so awesome, because you don't know what's going to happen, and I'm letting myself do that a lot more than I ever have.

I always do something that I've never done before.

I like pushing boundaries.

There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

Pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable - to me, that's something I'm definitely interested in and want to pursue.