Artistic Roles Quotes

I'm an actor and a writer, that's how I think of myself. Sometimes my time is divided equally, sometimes less equally, but that's what I do.

I feel like I have two different selves, one for being a part of SHINee and one as a solo artist.

I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. I'm a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that's not my focus.

Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

I'm not an actress. I'm a writer.

On my 'Mickey' video, I was the director, producer, choreographer, editor, singer - everything.

When I'm directing I'm working from 100% of my brain, but when I'm acting I'm working from my heart.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

I'm a writer first and a singer second.

Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.

I think it's a bad habit for an actor to change scripts because that's not your job. You're not a writer, necessarily - although there are some actors that are good at it.

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.

Drew was a director, and I'm a magician.

I am more comfortable in the actor's and writer's role than a director's.

I hate being called poet/dramatist/translator/director. 'Poet' covers it all for me.

I'm sometimes a cartoonist, and there's an audience for that, and I'm sometimes an illustrator, and there's an audience for that.

any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply.

I think like an actor when I'm acting, and I think like a director when I'm directing.

It's not really about confidence. It's just something that isn't really in the vocabulary of what goes on at work. The writers write and the actors act.

Honestly a role is a role - whichever industry it is in - TV, stage or films.

I started out as a writer and a director. I started acting because I wanted to know how to relate to the actors. When people ask me what I do, I don't really say that I'm an actor, because actors often wait for someone to give them roles.

I think, basically, I am an actor. Sometimes I'm an actor who's writing and sometimes an actor who's directing, but I think if I'm forced to fill out a form for my tax return, 'actor' is the first thing I write down.

I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.

Whenever I fill out the job description I put 'songwriter', never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go.