Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

Language is the dress of thought.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn’t call himself a poet.

Lettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

I have all the emotions that everyone has; it just appears that I don’t.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

I’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.

If you look at me in ‚Ride Along,‘ even though I’m playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

I always wanted to be loved.

I never look at my watch when I’m sketching!

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

In art, at a certain level, there is no ‚better than.‘ It’s just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised.

There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

Stand-up is my baby.

There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being rebels against order. But without it I would die, scattered to the winds.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

I create stars.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

I hate the idea of genres.

Desire is the very essence of man.

I don’t have stylistic loyalty. That’s why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

I believe in sketching because there is something very sensitive in sketching, you know, in sketches that you don’t have out of a computer that looks the same like everybody even if, later on, the dresses are OK, but I like to sketch, and I like to see trails made after my sketches that look the same. It is you know, what I like.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

In art the best is good enough.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.