Roseanne Barr Quotes

I think the most experimental way to a film is to tell the story the traditional way, because everyone is doing the other thing.

I just understand that I'm supposed to be one of those people that disrupts the flavor a little bit instead of being part of the same sound as everyone else.

I wanted to do something new and different. People expected me to do negative roles. I wanted to break the norm, and because of that, I lost on some great work as well.

I did not want to do things the way they are usually done in Hindi cinema.

My philosophy through all my work, be it on canvas or on the street, is about pushing boundaries and not going with the flow because everyone else is doing something a certain way.

I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

In art, the obvious is a sin.

'Dark Circles' is a great relationship/character piece and also a horror film. It tinkered with the genre, which I loved. I was sick of seeing the same thing, sick of people just trying to get a movie made.

I am not doing comedy because the genre is successful. If that was the case, I would have done a run-of-the-mill comedy film. I set my own trends. I like to give something new and different to my audiences. I want to do the kind of comedy that has been missing till now.

Whenever you're trying to do your own take on a classic piece of literature, it's almost like you're trying to swim up your own stream or drive down your own path.

Pop music is so structured, and I'm excited to try and challenge that in my own work.

Trends can tyrannize; trends are traps. In any creative industry, the fact that others are moving in a certain direction is always proof positive, at least to me, that a new direction is the only direction.

If your goal is to change the world, you can't start by doing things the same old way because it sells better.

Tradition is the great misleader because it's too easy to follow what has already been done - even though you may think you're giving it a kick. I was really trying to invent, instead of merely expressing myself.

You gotta stick your neck out and put out a record that isn't safe... that's the Green Day way!

I think the reason why 'Red Eye' is popular is because we question the common assumptions that you find elsewhere.

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.

Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.

When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing 'Mozart, Mozart, Mozart.' I said, 'No, I want to sing all the other stuff.' If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.

I think comics should test people, I think it's our job to go too far. That way we know as a society what too far is. Where else are you going to hear it?

Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.

Allowing alternative narrative modes in popular entertainment may seem obvious, yet when you turn a pilot into the people upstairs and the main character isn't after what she wants by the top of page two, you get treated as if you've failed at writing.

I hate this image of me as a prim Edwardian. I want to shock everyone.

I think, as an actress, people get on your case if you do the same thing over and over again. But if you get too far away from that, people don't like that, either.

This sounds really craven on some level, but on some level, a lot of what I'm doing is trying to not do a typical TV show.