Bobby Davro Quotes

I will say they were horrified when I wanted to be an actor. It wasn't a showbiz-y family, and my parents are real introverts who don't go to a lot of Hollywood parties and are most comfortable in their pajamas in our sweet little home. Part of the reason I wanted to be an actor and not just a writer is because I felt much more extroverted than that - I love to be around people, and feed off people's energy, and collaborations. If I hadn't had their example, I wouldn't have been so serious, but I also wouldn't have wanted so much to find another creative outlet.

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.

Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself.

We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

I think that art, and making music or comedy, is a way of positing yourself on the map and then trying to find other people out there with you.

I was so bad in school that acting gave me some kind of identity and gave me a home.

Music is such a part of my soul.

It's very important to me to understand myself and my place in the world. My films help me with that, and the more people see them, the more I am making a statement.

I really want to continue doing art. I would love to go back to doing paintings one day.

I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that's really me. The real me is something else.

I can't even call it work. I'm a creative-a-holic. I love the tearing into new material.

I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write. By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me.

If I don't create, I don't exist.

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint their great painting, they have it all planned out in their head. But for me, it's never worked that way.

For me, I would prefer to not have my face on the album cover. I don't mind being in the public, but it's just not really my personality, and it's not really why I'm into this. I like making art, and that's it. I don't really want to be a celebrity, seriously. I like my privacy.

Music, for me, was something I did because I was disillusioned after the Cold War's end and did not know what I wanted in life.

Years ago, I tried my hand at business and incurred huge loss, and my only way out was to do a movie with Mammootty.

When I started doing music, it was out of despair and boredom. I got passionate about it, and I felt that it allowed me to become somebody: an artist who explores her different identities.

Dancing is like - it's another way of communicating, no?

Acting, I get to explore other people and other characters; with music, I get to express and explore myself.

I wanted to write songs about other people because I was sick of myself, basically. I didn't like myself very much. 'Ghostwriting' became an outlet for that. And then I could get back to get Jens Lekman again.

It's a blessing to stay a child all your life - pretend to be this and that. And get paid for it.

When I became a songwriter, it was out of some sort of desperation. I needed to create something. I had to latch on to something, and the guitar was what I grabbed.

I just spent three years on 'The Office.' I made enough money that I can take five weeks out and do a play.

Creating content on YouTube played a huge role in helping define myself, as making videos was and still is a creative outlet for me - a way to express myself.