Quotes About Artistry

We performers sacrifice so much for your entertainment.

I think what actors have to do, what performers have to do to emotionally get to that place and have a camera and have your face 20 feet high on a screen, is such an incredible thing.

If you're performing music that is not who you are or where you're at, it is painful. It's painful for the performer and for the audience.

I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me.

As a cameraman, I was paid to stand within a few feet of Yehudi Menuhin performing. I saw Rudolph Nureyev dancing. I couldn't believe I was being paid for that.

I definitely want to continue acting and performing.

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to... I finally feel like myself.

I love performing. The more I do it, the more I grow into it.

My background was in performing originally.

In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.

All I have to concentrate on is my performing.

I love making movies, but there's nothing like performing live.

I want to be like Sutton Foster, Kristin Chenoweth or Anne Hathaway and do everything that has to do with performing.

I got the performing itch.

I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the way, but it's my way.

Sometimes you go to a show, and you see someone and think they're not there right now. They're performing, but it's muscle memory. There is no memorising some of the ways we put on a show.

This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not performing.

I think I'd always been interested in performing.

I'm hoping to work on some original songs and to keep performing in front of a crowd as much as I can.

People say my world is dark. No, there's a lot of lightness in my world. But I know very well that I'm not normal when I'm performing.

Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.