My Own World Quotes

For me, acting is like a therapy. I can express myself fully when I am acting and have blood in my veins. Even when I’m not working, I’m always living in my own world, imagining characters.

You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.

I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.

I almost never start with an image. I start with a painting idea, an impulse, usually derived from my own world.

If I had my own world I’d build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!

I always said that, when I grow up, I want to be like Joss Whedon: I want to have my own world.

I wanted to create my own world, a world full of color, where everyone could play. One big party that never ends.

It was hard for me to find my voice because I was, for so long, absorbed in my own world.

The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know… so I made my own world.

We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future, is in my hands, and I don’t want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.

I love writing in first person more than third. I have to basically suspend my own world. I don’t exist. I’m just a conduit. So I can be eight years old. I can be the mother of a kid that you find out certain things I’m not going to say.

I can’t worry too much about the everyday things. Otherwise I’d lose touch with my own world, that helps me as an artist, but it’s frustrating for the people around me. I’m vaguely functional, but there’s always something slightly off.

When I’m making my music, I’m writing it, I’m producing it, I’m playing all the instruments, I’m performing. It’s my own world where I do what I feel, and nobody tells me anything.

Although I was calm as a child, I had this restlessness about me–this need and hunger to create my own world. Poetry filled that void, and its words fed that vital necessity of ownership.

Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

I guess like any writer or screenwriter I’m alone in my own world so much of the time that I’m often trying to force myself out of my world. Into more risk. A less controlled kind of inspiration. I’m so keenly aware of how easy it’s getting to not leave the house, with Amazon, especially.