Geoff Dyer Quotes

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

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was to be in my room painting my walls and doing weird stuff. That's what I wanted and I got to do what I wanted, so that, to me, is my high school experience.

I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

My writing was liberated once I abandoned acting.

I love acting because it's empowering. It empowers me.

I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.

The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself.

Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.

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.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.

I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

I've tried actively to define myself and redefine myself, and not be pigeonholed.

I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.

Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world.

I need to live in new shoes and not be a dancer.

James Franco has turned his life into a real art project. In my opinion, that's the way to live.

There's a certain road in life most people walk on, because it's familiar, and they can jostle to get in front place. I prefer to take a different road that's less crowded, with many forks, where you get a wider view of life. I call it 'the road less travelled'. That's where I want to be.

I think writing a solo play was the most liberating thing I ever did.

I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.

Good things will come from self-expression.