Quotes About Performance

We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.

If an actor only comes alive when he has lines to say, it doesn't work, and the same goes for illustrated characters.

I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.

I don't really know if I am thought of as a style icon. I don't feel like that at all. Music comes first, but I also just enjoy being creative in whatever I'm doing, be it wearing clothes, making images, or performing.

You've only got to look at a film to see that it has to be collaborative - the images, the performances and all the art direction and the costume, everything shrieks collaboration.

I really could've been a good student, but I was always hearing an imaginary audience.

I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.

I can't imagine working without an audience.

At first, I didn't know what an actor was. I thought it was an acrobat. I saw acrobats at the circus, and I thought that was interesting. In my head, that was what I imagined I wanted to be when I grew up. Then I realized what an actor was, and I've gravitated to it ever since.

I never imagined I would be in colourful costumes and dance!

Casting is everything. Getting the person that you imagined is this character and then seeing what they bring to it.

Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.

I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.

When we lay something out and the talent goes out there, I'm part of the creative process of helping putting things together maybe putting things in different places. When they go out there and execute it even better than I have it imagined in my head, it is just a great feeling.

I'm always imagining some sort of story behind the song, even the ones I haven't written. I'm actively engaging in playacting.

Imagining things are there that are not really there, with the green screen, is very much like theatre, when you're looking at the fourth wall.

We have fulfilled all our agreements and all the conditions set by the IMF better than any other state.

It's a real challenge to have someone perform a character vs. imitate a character.

Honestly, it's hard to learn about comedy from comedians. Comedy is not something that you necessarily learn or can imitate. You're funny or you're not, and you hope what you're doing is funny.

As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.

If you are going to be a character for the long-term you can't just imitate, you have to bring yourself to it.

Art imitates life. It's definitely helpful to feel that way. You feel that way when you're leading a show and you're on a set.