Ben Vereen Quotes

As a creative person, you need to sort of spread your wings and try different things out because each one really does inform the other.

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

Creatively I just enjoy challenging myself in different genres.

I can't imagine not being in a phase where I'm trying to understand something or create something. That's the essence of life.

I try new techniques and styles almost every day, so I'm always challenging myself.

I try every day to do something that I've never done before or make some sound that I've never made before.

The child in me wanted to try out new things and do something different.

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're doing something.

I feel like I introduce another level of my creative ability on every album.

I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative.

From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.

I think you're always trying to challenge yourself to do new things and not repeat yourself.

I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with.

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

The best thing for an actor is to try it his way. The way they do it may not work, but it may inspire me to try something else.

If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves.

When I'm making stuff, the thing that excites me most is not the result, but the process and trying to do something I've never done before.

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience.