Top 195 Outlet Quotes

Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I’m waiting for that one satisfying role.

Acting is such a huge part of my life. It really allows me to have a creative outlet and to actually be able to have an outlet to discuss openly the things that truly I think are relevant in the world, that make a difference.

I go to coffee shops for my outlet. Which is just not healthy at all.

I guess I compete in everything I do, but it’s always good to get out and be active and find an outlet for all of that pent-up aggression you had as an athlete.

Kids see cooking as a creative outlet now, like soccer and ballet. It gives me hope that things like fast food, childhood obesity and the horrible state of school lunches can be addressed by kids and their parents.

I did a lot of choral music in high school, and that was kind of my primary, stable outlet for music because I didn’t feel comfortable being a soloist. It was a cool, safe space for me musically.

I love pouring my heart out. People don’t want to hear you whine when you’re with friends, so you can sing about it instead – it’s the best outlet.

Comedy’s my outlet for my ridiculous emotions.

I’ve written songs before, and I don’t want to share them with anybody. It’s really personal for me, that sort of creative outlet where you put your emotions to paper or put to song. I don’t do it that much anymore, but to let someone in on that outlet and to have it susceptible to judgment is scary.

Because of the way the record business has kind of stumbled and disintegrated, in a way, you’re as likely to sell records at your merch table at your gigs as you are to sell them in a regular record outlet or even online.

There are many things I love about my job! For instance, as a creative outlet, there’s no better way to express myself than through choreography and physical movement.

What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but it wasn’t until I was practicing law that I really needed a creative outlet. I’d come home from long days at the office and draw, paint, and sculpt from clay, wire – even candy.

I’ve probably wanted to be a rapper since I was a teenager. I was an actor and comedian and stuff, but I always wanted to rap, it was another outlet.

I felt like by doing ‘Turned Up,’ it was something for my fans. It would be a great outlet for me to come out musically and really step up my game.

I grew up in southern Africa but was born in England, so my family was afflicted with the stiff upper lip of the British. When coupled with the violence we saw as children, that can be a fatal combination. Fortunately, I have an outlet for trauma in my writing.

I like indoor Christmas trees. And I like people who decorate their homes with lights and all that crap. I think it’s a healthy outlet for them. If they weren’t covering their lawns with twinkling lights, they’d be doing something that was really, really creepy.

But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.

I was lucky enough to have an older brother who shared the splatter flicks with me, and I had parents who were cool and involved enough in my life to allow me to see them. I think my folks appreciated that I looked at these movies as a creative outlet… almost like magic shows, if you will.

Writing has always been an incredible outlet for me to feel like I have a voice, even when sometimes I was the only one reading my work. It has been a way for me to unlock my imagination. That’s when the world becomes yours, after all.

The hardest part of writing is the first draft, and the closer you get to your deadline, the messier your workspace becomes – but that’s the same with any creative outlet.

I’m the perfect amount of guarded. I don’t reveal too much, and I never reveal who the songs are about. They are real life. People get that. I date a lot of musicians and they do the same thing. People that work with me – who I write about too – they get it. It’s my creative outlet, my therapy.

In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don’t get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it’s a really great outlet for me to express myself.

Music for me has always been a vent and has always been a great outlet.

My role at the USTA allows me to fulfill my ambition to open up opportunities for people to play tennis that may not otherwise have a chance or an outlet to play.

I think fans have an outlet. Through social media, you can hear them.

I’m not claiming that football is the nation’s salvation in this area, but it’s one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can’t be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

I think it’s really important for actors to have another creative outlet, or for anyone, really.

When I’m not working, I would kill to have some sort of creative outlet other than, say, a coloring book. And when I’m working, I want to do all those things I was griping about – you know, make a turkey-and-cheese sandwich, put it in a zip-top bag, and stick it in a lunch box right now!

My mom has always said that the one thing she wishes she had done differently is have a job. She felt like the single-mindedness made her a little nuts sometimes, and she could have used an outlet for herself when we were little.

I had a hard time with bullying in school, so being creative was my outlet.

I wanted to write songs about other people because I was sick of myself, basically. I didn’t like myself very much. ‘Ghostwriting’ became an outlet for that. And then I could get back to get Jens Lekman again.

There are many great outlets that we love and respect, but ‘The North Star’ really is going to be a hard news outlet with reporters and journalists, White House correspondents. I think we’ll be hard news with some cultural commentary.

I’m trying to set up opportunities for myself so that I don’t only have one outlet to go through and rely upon as far as a support system financially, emotionally and mentally.

I think and write whenever I want an outlet.

Can you imagine watching ‘All in the Family’ and having an outlet like Twitter? Where you could discuss it while it’s happening? I think that would be a really interesting thing.

When I was younger, I felt very alone and that I didn’t fit into my own skin. I loved the idea of becoming somebody else, and acting was an outlet for me and those emotions.

My outlet is my music, and it’s been this way since I was 4 years old.

Whenever I write songs, it’s my outlet for a certain feeling. I just don’t as often feel compelled to write when I’m not really sad about something, or wanting to sort through something dark.

I think it’s really important, as an actor in this business, to have another creative outlet.

When you’re talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

I’m glad I have an outlet. I don’t think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.

I have my outlet for my humor through my characters, and I also have the intimacy of rapport with my fans that allows me to explain my philosophy and spirituality.

When I was a kid growing up in the ’60s, music was an outlet for enlightenment, frustration, rebellion. It was more about individualism. Today it’s just like a big business.

No matter what, all I want to do is win. I don’t care what anybody says, any media outlet, anybody says as a person; the one thing they can’t say is that I don’t want to win.

As an actor, you have a ton of downtime, so it’s always good to have a hobby, especially another creative outlet outside of acting.

At age 4 I started in gymnastics and used that as an outlet for my endless energy for several years.

A script is so word-heavy, after trying to communicate so much verbally, I think you need a different outlet to give the verbal centre of your brain a chance to cool off.

I started doing drag because I needed a creative outlet for myself.

For me, when I grew up, I never really had an outlet when it came to my social surroundings. Even if I had a form of popularity, I felt like I was very limited.

The Internet has been a great outlet for storytelling. After all, there are web-based shows that have started online and have then gotten picked up. I think it’s a great opportunity for artists to get through the network roadblock. It just allows us another venue to be creative in.

It is important for the creative juices to find an outlet, otherwise they stagnate.

With my job, I am designing spaces for families on a weekly basis, and that is where I get my creative outlet.

There’s always a need for our kind of music. It’s an outlet. You can only listen to so much pop and you just have to listen to something heavy.

I’ve been badly shocked before. I grabbed the mic to talk – it was near an outlet and there was water. I got shocked, and the jolt went from my head to my feet, shutting down my body and I just passed out. My friends woke me up and took me to the hospital.