Quotes about Expression

It bothered me that women were taught they can't be beautiful just being themselves - it filled me with rage.

Characters never live with me in film the way they do on stage, and they have certain ramifications that movies just never have.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way - but it has to be said the right way.

I got into rap when I first heard Sugarhill Gang.

Gender doesn't exist in my book.

Your gender should not matter in your heart or in the way you express your personality.

I was still afraid to sing in front of people before 'Glee.'

The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.

Crying does not equal good acting.

I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real.

The writers who get my personal award are the ones who show exceptional promise of looking at their lives in this world as candidly and searchingly and feelingly as they know how and then of telling the rest of us what they have found there most worth finding. We need the eyes of writers like that to see through. We need the blood of writers like that in our veins.