Quotes About Performance

I've played a lot in Las Vegas in my life.

After many of years of getting cast in sweet, angelic roles, I'm finally getting to play closer to my real life as a horrible person.

There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.

I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.

When I watch people like Cate Blanchett act, I don't know what is going on in her life, you just get lost in her performance and that's what I hope to do as well.

People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.

It's so fun to play something that feels reckless - not all the time, but I really must be acting out something that I can't do in real life.

My whole life, I always wanted to be an actor.

It's called the mysterious rhythm of life, ... I can't quite account for it. It's probably an addiction, quite honestly. I need that shot of stage every two or three years.

When old Bobby does Elvis, you swear it's the real mccoy. Another Friday night in the life of a country boy.

In acting, you have to pull from real-life situations, from people, to help develop a character.

Life is something to be done, and so is drama.

I don't view interviewing as much of a performance. My whole life is in essence a performance but singing and dancing for television is an entirely different thing.

I don't drink anymore. That's a huge - that's a massive - difference in my life. It's made a huge change in my touring.

I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.

Actors, you know, they're often awkward people in real life.

Again, I'm used to speaking to a lot of people; I have a lot of friends and family, and I perform music and speak in front of a lot of crowds. So I share with people already a lot in my life.

[My ideal] is being able to be outdoors, have a labor intensive life, and then have this other life, where I hop on a plane and go sing to people in Norway.

Life is not an opera. Scenes belong on the stage.

Life as a voice actress is tough. It's not an easy career.

I don't believe in acting. I think that people in life act, but when you are on the stage, or in my case also on screen, you have to be true.

Improv Everywhere tramples the lines drawn between spectacle and spectator, theatre and real life, public and private, performance and protest, and reclaims the streets for ordinary people.

I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.