Junot Diaz Quotes

I don't know, as long as I get to evolve and grow as an actor and as a person, that's the stuff I'm after.

It just seemed hedonistic when I first started acting. It was a pleasurable thing. But as I look back on it now, I understand that it was a journey of the self for me.

I'm always trying to prove to my 17-year-old self that I can do creative things I thought weren't possible.

I started using this outlet of creativity - you know, going to the studio, writing, meeting these writers and producers - as the best form of representing myself to my fullest potential.

Most things I go through I have to write about.

I think all any artist or person wants to do is grow spiritually, emotionally, professionally and mentally.

'Nation' was one that I'd have killed myself if I hadn't written it. It was absolutely important to me that I wrote it. It was good for my soul.

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

I've learned that I'm most powerful when I'm doing my art.

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.

I am still the place where creation does some work on itself.

Part of the reason that I moved to Los Angeles is that even though my mom introduced me to all kinds of music, I really wanted to work on having my own identify, on being who I am and doing what I do, and seeing how people responded.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

Making your life is ultimately an extraordinarily creative endeavor.

I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

You can never learn it all and I hope to continue my growth as a person and a musician.

I'm always consciously trying to make what I feel is missing.

What do I see when I look in the mirror? One handsome man. No, I see the same person I have seen for the last 27 years: the person I believed I could be when I was a child, the person I have inspired and dreamed to be all my life, and that's the person I have seen, from being that big to as big as the roof - the same guy.

I've had a lot of opportunities to grow inside and out as a performer, artist, and a woman.

There's a lot to the story. And there are a lot of things I've learned about myself and about love, and I'm really grateful for the lessons, and I hope I can share that through art. I look for projects that allow me to do that, whether it's music or acting.