Quotes About Performance

Be it in Malayalam or Tamil, I got to play characters who had plenty to do in the storyline and not just be a prop.

If I am convinced with the storyline and get an opportunity to play a powerful role, I would.

When you hear complaints about pro wrestling, it's that there is too much soap opera, too much storyline.

What is it really going to amount to if I go out there and run against Usain when he is not at his best? That is not a great storyline. It is not a race I would like to go out and win.

There's always going to be pressure, and there's always going to be an area where you disappoint. As a storyteller, you have to understand that.

Even as an actor, I think like a storyteller. My parents raised us to look at the script.

I can do four shows in a row singing no problem. Four shows in a row stand up, my voice is destroyed. I'm a storyteller so I act out a lot of characters and I act out a lot of situations and I'm distorting my voice and imitating characters I run into. I'm actually more exhausted doing that than I am with the rock shows, believe it or not.

I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.

As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.

I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.

I am essentially an entertainer and a storyteller.

I'm a storyteller. I'm not like any other comic. I tell detailed stories - not made-up stuff, but true stories.

Hi. My name is Debby, and I am a storyteller. I don't think of myself as an actress. I am more like a face that takes words on a page, and puts them in front of your eyes.

It's fun to do accents; it's fun to do different periods - that's why you become an actor. Because it's fun to be a storyteller and play make-believe.

I wanted to do what I was seeing Dorothy Dandridge doing, what I saw Marilyn Monroe do, what I saw Bette Davis do. I wanted to do that: to tell stories. I wanted to make people laugh, make people cry. I wanted to be a storyteller.

As a stand-up, as a storyteller, as an improviser, I've done thousands of shows. They allow me to work out new material that might turn into something later. They let me keep my muscles sharp for when the rent-paying gigs do come along. They keep me sane.

If I as a storyteller and performer get to participate in something that can potentially elevate something in society, morally? I'm all for it.

My whole family are hams. They're storytellers and everyone outdoes the next one.

We're all storytellers in this business, and I personally love to sit back and watch someone tell a story. If it's done well, there's nothing like it. It's pure.

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

I need people - theatrics and schmoozing and storytelling are part of my talent.

Compared to other forms of drama, performance art is often thought of as inaccessible and overly artsy. I prefer to think of it as storytelling, something that has been with us through the ages and a part of every culture.

My show is more storytelling now than it's ever been. It's what I'm good at.

My first love is definitely performing, but I just love storytelling, and that's another aspect of it.