Quotes About Inspiration

Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.

I always was a writer, but then I wanted to do stand-up because I thought that was a way that I could perform what I wrote.

Being on set is like being in college, for me, because I get to watch other people perform and I can learn from them if I listen and pay attention.

I just like to write and then perform.

I learned a lot just watching people perform.

I feel like with every performance that I see, I get better because I've always thought - while I'm watching people perform - of what I would do.

When I see a friend play Hamlet or see an inspirational performance, I absolutely get excited by the idea of changing things up.

I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.

I have seen 'OK Kanmani,' and I really enjoyed it. I loved Dulquer's performance. I became a fan of his after seeing his work in the film. I would love to meet him.

Every time I see a live performance of something, I'm like, 'I want to be doing that!'

I really appreciate that: to walk into an environment where everyone is serious and dedicated to creating the best performance possible and challenging themselves to figure out the most interesting way to approach the work.

I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.

In 'BV,' every actor's performance touches your heart. The team on the show is dedicated, which inspires me a lot.

I love actors; I love seeing great performances. I just love that, when I'm seeing a performance, that inside me, I just go, 'Oh my God, how are you doing that? Where is that coming from?' Where you see an actor do something, and I can't even locate it in my own body.

When I started doing drag, I always put together multimedia elements for live performance.

Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.

I watch a lot of movies, I watch a lot of old movies, I watch a lot of great performances, and I watch a lot of great directors.

I owe so much of my musical growth to my exploration and performance of Carnatic music.

When you'e working with great actors, your performance also becomes better because you have such great energy in front of you.

Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.

I've always been interested in the arts and chucked a science degree to study theatre and performance art because I was so enamored by it.

My father was obsessed with folk music from around the world, and I think the countless artists who performed them are my biggest influences.

I wrote my first play when I was nine. It was performed at Hampstead Theatre.

I painted sets before I ever performed.