Demetri Martin Quotes

I never dreamed of being an actor, but I'm beginning to love it more and more because I like challenging myself. When I feel like I'm not learning or having fun anymore, then I'll stop.

I do eventually want to get back into performing, but right now it's more fun for me to dance for myself.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

I learn from every movie I do because on every movie I have a different experience.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.

I love learning new things, and 'Austin & Ally,' honestly, was probably the best foundation for the acting side of me, just cause I learned so much.

Acting's such a good job in that you're stimulating and pushing yourself constantly. I'd never want to do anything comfortable.

I try to make sure the projects that I choose are something that will teach me something new, either about myself or about my art.

Making music is like school to me.

One of the things I love about acting is that there is always scope for growth.

We record Dream Theater shows and I'll sit on the bus and listen to my playing - what worked, what didn't. A lot of times it's embarrassing and humbling, but that's what you have to do to get better.

My acting, writing, performance - keep me on my toes.

You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.

Singing other people's material was perceived, I think, as a weakness of my persona. The effect, though, was to make me dig my heels in and try even harder to combine the two.

Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.

Discipline, strictly speaking, is activity carried on to prepare us indirectly for some activity other than itself. We do not practice the piano to practice the piano well, but to play it well.

The challenge and love, for me, of acting is if you get to transform or do something you haven't done before. That's fun.

You always want to challenge yourself and work with people you respect. You can't always go by genres, but it's always fun to challenge yourself.

I got to focus on my performance - learning how to perform is something I've been working on both personally and professionally.

I love develop as an artist, to push my envelope, to grow, to make mistakes, to learn from them and to try and be the very best that I can be while I'm on this earth.

I don't really do too many interviews - I like creating and being visual, shooting videos and movies. I just like showcasing my skill and challenging myself.

The point of my photography has always been to challenge myself, to go a little further than my Germanic discipline and Teutonic nature would traditionally permit me to.

My singing, if you want to call it that is merely another medium of expression. Just an instrument I play. That's how I see my voice.