Dexter Fletcher Quotes

I was doing TV work, theatre work, and some film work in the Philippines when I left.

I didn't want to go to college - I was bored by junior high. So I was in church one day, staring at the stained glass windows and thinking about things, when suddenly I decided that if I could start selling cartoons to magazines, they'd let me quit high school.

At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living.

The making of a whole person and the creation of true individuals can only happen by singing and dancing and making art.

My mission is to give girls the tools to be able to blossom into their best selves.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

I always wanted to be an artist. I always knew that I wanted to paint, or dance, or sing, or act, or write.

I am with the entertainment industry since the age of 12.

It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.

I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that.

I don't know how to put on an act; I always show myself for what I am, in whatever mood I'm in.

Dancing is a part of my life where when I don't dance I feel like there's something missing because I'm such a physical person who loves to express myself through dance, but I love to act. I love to sing. I love to entertain so if I'm passionate about a certain project, I wanna do it.

I'm totally at home on the stage. That's where I live. That's where I was born. That's where I'm safe.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

Performing as a musician is a lot different than performing as an actor. As an actor, you can hide behind the character in the play, and there's a director and other actors. When you're a musician, you're right there. It's sort of like being a comedian. You're giving the audience in real time something authentic from yourself. As an actor, my bullshit meter was going off like crazy at my first attempts to find my own rock star.

People tend to think when you're on dramatic films, that it's all so heavy, but it's really not when you're working with great actors.

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 just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you can express that through music, through painting, through photography, through acting - this is just another way for me to express myself.

We expect him to take up a lot of space in his gangly experiments with life, and we teach him, through task, work, game, activity, and experience how to use that space. Above all, we give him mentoring and supervision that respects and teaches his gifts, his visions, even his shadowy inner demons

I am tired of hiding, tired of misspent and knotted energies, tired of the hypocrisy, and tired of acting as though I have something to hide.

Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don't doubt yourself.

Many of the most successful men and women in the world never graduated from college. They attended the school of life instead.

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.

I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be.