Quotes About Performance

A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing live was the bit I hated the most. I never felt like a confident singer.

Many writers secretly long to be performers. You always get the 'if you weren't a writer' question. I would be a back-up singer, to stand in the back and go like 'do, do, do.'

I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.

What's interesting is a lot of the older music when we start performing it, it acts a lot like muscle memory. It's kind of like riding a bike. For me as a singer, I just had to remember like what part of my face I sang that into.

I'm not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I've been through enough to do it right.

I've only ever wanted to be a singer; I never wanted to be famous.

Dairy products are not good for a singer.

I'm not Bill Evans. I'm not Keith Jarrett. I'm basically a singer who plays along with his voice.

I'm trying to get an acting gig on 'CSI' or something like that, so we'll see how that works out. I'm a singer, definitely not an actor, so I just follow directions.

I think every singer hears songs that make you want to sing them.

When I'm up on stage, I'm thinking more about my fans and about myself as a singer and an artist. When I'm at home being a daddy, the last thing I'm thinking about is being an artist. It is two things that I never really put together.

'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.

The thing is that I'm an actor first, and in 'Once,' I was able to be a musician and a singer as well as an actor.

I'm an 'in the shower' or 'in the booth' kind of singer. I can sing, but I need either nobody to be able to hear me, or for me to be able to redo it.

I would love to go into musicals. I got a chance to sing in 'Big Momma's House,' and that's something I would love to do more. But only in Broadway or in the movies. I don't think I would ever seek a career as a singer.

I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.

If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.

I was always a bit of a showgirl; it was in my blood. I never thought I would have a career as a singer, though.

I was an okay singer. I was an okay dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.

I didn't go to drama school or anything, and I learned on the job. And it's nice to have the chance to pretend to be other people. As a singer, though, I feel there's much more of me in that. I've written the songs, I'm singing them, I'm exposing my feelings.

I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.

I am an actress first, a singer second.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a moody folk singer, sitting on stools and being very depressing.