Quotes About Performance

Gaga is a gorgeous singer, and when she sings a great ballad, I get goose bumps.

I do agree that when a singer sings all the songs for one actor in a film, the impact is much better.

It's an honour when your audience sings along, more than they listen to you at a live gig.

So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

You rarely find someone who sings really well and who produces really well; it's a problem, and I just think it's a missing link in the music scene.

My favorite electric guitar would have to be my Duesenberg. I've named her 'Dolores,' and she sings like an operatic menace.

It's always been my dream to look like Mariah Carey in my photos with a microphone. I don't know how she does it. When she sings, she looks perfect.

I said if a woman sings an aggressive guy's lyric, it can't miss.

Adam Scott sings like a bird... He's so bad. He's so bad.

My favorite diva is Dame Shirley Bassey from the U.K. I just love that every song she sings becomes crazy and intense with feeling. That's how I feel in my daily life.

My sister plays piano, and my brother used to be on the drums. My dad sings; he's got a good voice.

When an actor sings a song, he will be able to bring forth the emotion in it much better than a playback singer.

Sometimes at my performances, I see Peruvian flags in the audience. I've never seen, when an Italian sings, people with Italian flags. But with Peru, it's different: because there are not many famous people, they really celebrate the ones they have.

I'm still the same guy who gets in front of the mic and just sings.

I'd love to write a song that someone else sings that can actually sing really well.

Now bands have to sing live, now people watch who sings on the record, now people want to hear the real music and not just plastic bands anymore. So I think we changed the music business to a better, more honest way.

I'm basic. If it's Sia, I'm gonna like it. Her voice is great. She's ruining her voice though, the way she sings.

Acting isn't a singular profession, it is a collaborate profession.

I don't really pay attention to which accent I have. I'm in a singular box as an actress.

When I start thinking about a role, I read the script a few times and then let it sink in - and then take some time to develop how that character is going to play out and what he's going to do.

The pressure of getting an order right is greater than sinking a putt.

Playing a sinner is very liberating!

One of my best memories is with a really good group of people in the Canberra Youth Theatre. We did a play about the seven deadly sins, and we had to dress up in costume and perform in Garema Place like the drama freaks we were. Great fun.

Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy.