Quotes About Performance

I am working on my nightclub act, definitely want to do more singing.

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

I consider myself as a singer first, but something that really helped me come into my own is that there's not a separation between me singing and me playing the guitar. The two fed off the other.

In the last century, everybody was singing lower.

But I won't deprive myself of singing opera as long as my voice follows.

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.

I'm not comfortable singing in front of people yet. That's going to take another 100 performances.

Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.

I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.

I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't.

I have been taking voice and singing lessons since age 10 and originally got into it because I was really interested in musical theater. After writing my first couple of songs and performing at age 14, I knew that I really wanted to be a singer.

I'm also taking singing classes as well, not that I ever plan to sing in public in my entire life. I actually have a phobia of singing, so I decided to take some singing lessons to help me get away from the phobia.

I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical.

I don't like my voice, and I don't enjoy my singing voice; I do what I do to bring pleasure and diversion to the fans.

I love to listen to pop music and I admire people who do that, but I don't think I would ever be a very good pop star. I always leave that singing voice for the shower! I wouldn't put it out in the world!

For singers, our singing voice is our natural voice, not the speaking.

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

Every re-election campaign is a referendum on the incumbent. Every. Single. One.

Every single film I've done, it's about the character.

I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

You look at someone like Beyonce singing 'Single Ladies,' when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment.

I'm at my best when people are depending on me. If it's just on me and I don't have nothing to do, I'm going to be lazy. On the football field, it's every single day, every play, knowing that people are depending on me to make my play. That helps me elevate my game to another level.