Liz Murray Quotes

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

To me, unconventional thinking is approaching a problem and asking, 'Why not? Why can't something be done?' If someone can't give me a good reason why you can't do something, I find a way to do it.

If anyone ever tells me something doesn't go together, it makes me want to try it.

I made a film that was impossible to make, but I didn't know it was impossible, and that's how I was able to do it.

Don't be put off by people who know what is not possible. Do what needs to be done, and check to see if it was impossible only after you are done.

If people tell you it's impossible, it's an even better reason to want to do it. People have a tendency to see the problem rather than the final result. If you treat the problems as possibilities, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing ways.

I like taking up challenges. I prefer working with scripts that are different and veer from the tried and tested. So far, it's always worked.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

Always listen to experts. They will tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.

To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought

All I really want to do is things I haven't done. 'I'm gonna put a paper bag on my head and be on the cover of 'Billboard,' see what I can get away with - if they'll let me.' And they let me. And I am literally giggling inside for, like, a month that I got away with it.

Sometimes, not knowing what you're doing allows you to do things you never knew you could do.

I've always been interested in kind of doing the thing that you weren't necessarily recommended to do.

I like to think limitlessly, and you can't be limitless if you're constantly looking at best practices.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

Magic lies in challenging what seems impossible.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

It's so important to never limit yourself, to find yourself in a box.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.

The impossible - we are told - cannot be achieved. To overcome the 'impossible,' we need to use our wits and be fearless. We need to break the rules and to circumvent - some would one say to cheat.

I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.