Tali Lennox Quotes

I'm a creative person. I love to write, I love to act, I love to perform, I love to create things with my hands, so I do all of these things that are kind of like hobbies in a way. They're things that I love, so it's not like a work-life balance; it's just a work-life marriage.

Because I'm so busy and because I think of myself as a painter, I desperately guard the time that I have to paint. And sometimes I'm irresponsible to my career in order to paint. Because painting is obsessive. I forget to eat. I forget to sleep.

People ask whether I put the politics first, journalism first or the comedy first; it doesn't really matter. I'm just playing with the cards that I have been dealt because I really love doing what I do.

I'm voraciously looking to express myself in my work. I love my work.

I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

I didn't do it for the money. I know a lot of people say that, but if I'd wanted to be rich, I'd have stayed working as a city lawyer. I gave that up eight years ago and took a massive drop in salary, and I didn't mind because I was doing what I loved. There's plenty of material for the other five books.

Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.

So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person.

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

I work very hard, you know, but I don't think that I'm working, because what I do pleases me so much. I write about certain things because certain things happen to me.

Music is my greatest love. It is also my first love. But I love a lot of things, including painting, drawing, writing, designing, and more.

I think as long as acting feels fulfilling and continues to feel fulfilling, it's worth it to me.

The offers are plenty. I'm just taking time and only working on those projects that excite me.

I think a person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave. Work begins when you don't like what you're doing. There's a wise saying: make your hobby your source of income. Then there's no such thing as work, and there's no such thing as getting tired. That's been my own experience. I did just what I wanted to do. It takes a little courage at first, because who the hell wants you to do just what you want to do; they've all got lots of plans for you. But you can make it happen.

If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.

I can do anything - but that doesn't mean I should do that. I need to enjoy what I do. I enjoy making movies.

I was loving music, and loving art, painting, so I was considering those things, but I must say I dug acting as well.

I never think of this business as fun. I don't know why. I think I've actually said something about it being fun, but I don't think of it that way. It's not fun, doing it. It's joyful, it's passionate, it's rewarding, it's a pursuit of truth, but I don't think of it as fun. It's not a game.

When you're following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.

The musings are the same I believe the fire to create burns so heavily that I am never far from a guitar or a fountain pen.

What is it that you like doing? If you don't like it, get out of it, because you'll be lousy at it. You don't have to stay with a job for the rest of your life, because if you don't like it you'll never be successful in it.

The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

I'm more focused or try to be more focused on my acting and writing and comedy and let the other stuff fall where it may.