Quotes About Performance

I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul.

Every time I'd do a play, my grades would get better because I was doing something that fed my soul. It took me a couple of years to recognize that the hobby was actually the calling.

Every day of my life, I wish I was on Broadway. It's my favorite place. It's my heart; it's my soul.

I take my time to get into the mindset of the character and say my lines. I really have to be the person that I am playing.

I've done a lot of guerrilla theater in my time.

I've been part of five different bands in my time.

I loved my time doing 'Private Practice' in Los Angeles, and I was quite challenged and excited to learn about the art of television, but I missed being on the stage.

I just think about the fight and what can happen. In the ring, It's my time to shine in front of everyone.

Any audition that I have now, I feel like it's easier for me to learn the words because of my time on 'One Life to Live.'

I have to devote my time and thoughts to training and playing.

I'm being myself when the camera is rolling.

I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.

Have you seen McConaughey in 'Unsolved Mysteries?' Even back then, it's a great performance! And he's mowing the lawn.

Acting is different from mental gymnastics. You try to discover as much about the character as you can, but a large area is mysterious.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

Acting is a mysterious process.

I like being mysterious as an actress.

You can start with a great director and great actors and have a great script - and it still just doesn't work. It's kind of a mystery how that happens.

I like the mystery of seeing someone like Mickey Rourke do his thing. I don't know how he does it, but I'm glad he does it.

People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up.

Sometimes it's nice as an actress just to keep something back about yourself so there's a little bit of mystery.

A magic show and a concert are very similar in the way I like keeping things a mystery and not doing them the same way every time. The listener and the audience never know what's going to happen next.

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.

There should be an element of mystique between the fans and the artist. That bit between the stage and the audience. I think that's necessary.