Stephen Hough Quotes

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

I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself.

Everyone has their own path in life, no matter if it's being a celebrity or a singer. Quite frankly, I didn't move to Nashville and tell myself I wanted to be a singer because I wanted to be a celebrity or I wanted to be somebody that people admired. I wasn't about that. I just loved music.

A lot of what I do outside acting is really just for me.

I think being creative and making something that you can look at is so good for your brain and your soul. Nothing beats it.

Maybe it's because it's connected to my childhood, or it's connected to the origins of what drove me creatively, but I feel like my life never makes more sense than when I'm in that process.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

My ambition is to do what I like and to do good things that I might not have done before.

I'm just trying to do things that are interesting for me.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

Doing makeup was a way to create characters, only I got tired of doing it for other people.

I think it started since I was born, I always had a need to express myself, you know, as a human being, and I found that it felt right when I expressed myself through art, dance, through acting, so it kind of happened naturally.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

I've always been creating my whole life, you know. I've just had a need to create, whether it was sculpting or writing or directing. It's just ever since I was a kid, I don't know.

I love life. I'm fascinated by human behavior because that feeds back into my work.

The things I write about are the things that I am passionate about, interested in, and fighting for in my life.

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

It's about the journey and the process. I do things because I love doing them, or trying them.

My biggest ambition is never to be bored. I'm not aggressive enough to strongly run after being an actress.

I act because I have to, because I need to find out whether I can do it or not - that's what drives me and excites me and lights me up.

I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.