Laura Bell Bundy Quotes

I think there's a deep impulse in most humans to do creative stuff, whether that's music or art, photography or writing. Most people at some point in their life say they want to do something creative - they want to be an actor, a director, a writer, a poet, a painter or whatever.

It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing.

I would like to be known as an 'artist'. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. I'm interested in all of those things.

I think it's really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.

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.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

What part of people is resistant to an artist doing more than one thing? Is it somehow perceived as greedy? Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

I think everyone has the potential to be creative, but they have to find the avenue or avenues that work for them.

I design therefore I become.

Exercise your creative muscles all the time, either through classes or through other artistic avenues like painting or dancing or even gardening, staying active and being creative so that when opportunities do come up, you are in a position to take advantage of them.

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.

My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.

The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

I guess as a kid, I was always creative, and I was involved in music, like piano and violin and choir, so I always knew - I always knew that I wanted to do something that would allow me to be who I am. Generally, that was creatively, imaginatively.

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 just wanted to be creative, so I did photography, and that led me ultimately to music.

I think I would've found myself in the arts somewhere along the lines. If you're creative, you find something, eventually.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that.

Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'

If you were to say to me that I couldn't paint, I would write. If I couldn't write, I would be a set designer. As long as I'm creating something, I'm happy.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!