Peter Facinelli Quotes

I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

I think for every artist it's important to always keep this amount of doubt until the very last day of shooting.

I love the process of creating a character; someone entirely different from myself, and depicting it, either on stage or screen.

Everybody faces a blank piece of paper, no matter what they've written or painted or composed before. I can't imagine approaching every single new project with-without doubt.

I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

I think making art is something where you think you know, you also know you don't know and you hope - all these things are in play all the time. I think it's what makes the excitement of creativity for the artist.

Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the 'I'm a Fraud' phase. You go through the 'I'll Never Finish' phase. And every once in a while you think, 'What if I actually have created what I set out to create, and it's received as such?'

Any art worth its name requires you to be fundamentally lost for a very long time.

As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.

I have moments when I'll stare at a script and say, 'I don't know what I'm doing!' But then I push myself into that feeling because I think panic is important.

There's one thing now that I experience every day when I'm making a film. I get up and think to myself, 'Am I going to be able to do it today?' I figure as long as I have that fear, I'll be alright.

I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.

I do develop characters for songs, and I think of everything as storytelling, in a way. But I don't plan out what they're going to sound like. I just sing over what I've done.

If you are going to be dogged with doubts you shouldn't be making movies.

Every time somebody asks me, 'Oh, when you mix your own music, what are you going to make?' And I don't know.

I don't know what the character is going to be. We sit down and we create a character, and all of the characters in all of my films are made like that.

It's kind of amazing; I don't know anything. It's an interesting way to work where you're living in the moment and making decisions for your character in the moment. You have to go with your gut on everything - try not to over-think things. That tends to make me doubt what I did, but then that's always the case. I'm a worrier. I have to accept that and just be a worrier.

The easier you make it look, the more difficult it is. Creating characters out of nothing, and making them interesting - and that's another advice I would give to writers.

It's always an interesting challenge to see if you can create a character that's got emotion.

The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.

I think that there are a lot of great studio people but the fewer voices in my head when I'm getting out a draft, the better. I just get it out and then I'll listen to all manner of good ideas. And that's what happens, too, when I'm touring and doing a character on stage.

I'm the most indecisive person in the world. I'll do three versions of a song, then think, "Is the demo better?"

I've often hesitated in beginning a project because I've thought, 'It'll never turn out to be even remotely like the good idea I have as I start.' I could just 'feel' how good it could be. but I decided that, for the present, I would create the best way I know how and accept the ambiguities.

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

I don't really know where I got my artists idea. The scraps of what I remember do not explain to me where it came from. I only know that by this time it was definitely settled in my mind.