Annie Baker Quotes

Creative freedom is a huge carrot.

There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.

To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.

I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

Acting is the only time when I truly maintain the spontaneity that I want to be present at all times.

It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.

You have to let people express themselves in the way that they need to express themselves. You have to express yourself in any way possible, provided you're prepared to live with the consequences.

Poetry is a break for freedom.

I don't have a style. I wouldn't say I have a style as a writer, either. I know people have said "This is what he does," but when I'm writing, I don't think about that. I don't think about a style.

People need to dance. I'd say dance at least twice a day. That's how to get your energy up and how you keep you revolutionary spirit going. It's Emma Goldman who said, "Any revolution where I can't dance is not my revolution." I think that's the revolution we want.

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely inherent to artistic expression.

I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den.

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

I understand that people are afraid. Because I think censorship is about fear. It's just fear being projected onto art.

The poet knows that he speaks adequately, then, only when he speaks somewhat wildly.

For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn.

Milton, of all people, gave the most perfect definition of the state of mind required to play jazz: ' with wanton heed and giddy cunning.' That's how you play jazz.

There are no wrong notes.

I think the beautiful thing about acting is you don't really know who you are. You're able to be whatever you want any day during the week.

I'm looking for something that gives me a chance to stretch. Because I have my own work, and I can do anything I want in my own work - juggle, tap dance, anything I want.

Our people should feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different.

People who listen to my records expect the ballads from me. The rock 'n roll is on there because it's another mode of expression.

A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.

Writing has to do with truth-telling. When you're writing, let's say, an essay for a magazine, you try to tell the truth at every moment. You do your best to quote people accurately and get everything right. Writing a novel is a break from that: freedom. When you're writing a novel, you are in charge; you can beef things up.