Dorothy Parker Quotes

If you do things, whether it's acting or music or painting, do it without fear - that's my philosophy. Because nobody can arrest you and put you in jail if you paint badly, so there's nothing to lose.

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

Each single gesture of art must be daring. One must not be concerned with the side-effects.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.

A little irreverence is always important to being a columnist. I try to do that.

The message is risk, really risk. Be yourself. Create.

A lot of times, the people who have the confidence to say, 'I don't know what the rules are, so I'm just going to do what I want,' are the most exciting people.

You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.

Creating content and never being afraid to try something new have been my two hallmarks.

I'm not afraid to have a really weird idea or, you know, take a really bad guitar solo.

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.

Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

I think I'm always conscious of not letting things fit into a specific box. Being a filmmaker and trying to chart a career, you never want anyone to be able to pigeonhole you into one specific thing.

I'm not sure when exactly I knew I was funny, but I always knew I was different. I never had an 'edit' button and would say whatever came into my head. Most of the time, what came out of my mouth was the very thing everyone else was thinking - but too polite or afraid to verbalize.

What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.

When you're young, you're fearless and more creative, more of an outsider.

It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want.

I have this theory that your first film is always your best film in some way. I always try to get back to that moment when you're not relying on things you've done before.

There's no such thing as a cautious creative.

My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.

I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.

Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.