Quotes About Performance

Whenever you have chemistry on-screen, then you have to be very attracted to the person.

What I believe is to keep working. How a film performs at the box office is not in my control: what is in my control is my work, how much honesty I can bring on-screen. I am happy people love me.

I have done my share of looking glamorous on-screen in many films.

As an actress, I want to live many lives on-screen.

There are other people in 'Dreamgirls' who are born-again Christians. We have a Bible study class once a week. It was started by Charles Bernard and myself. We meet at the theater.

Around shows, when we're doing really strenuous stuff on my hair - styling with heat, adding things, braiding things, pinning things - I like to give my scalp and my hair a rest. We usually have a show once a week or so, so I try to deep condition with Pantene Daily 3 Minute Miracle Deep Conditioner once a week.

I have my turbo bike at home, so I can do high cadence stuff and interval sessions on there, and then I get out on the road once a week to do a 50km ride.

I love singing; I just don't get to do it enough. The times that I do it, once a year, every year with 'Divas Simply Singing,' is a truly joy to me, but I'd love to do it some more.

You can't keep going back to Detroit because you're big in Detroit. You can go maybe once a year and sell it out because everybody loves you and looks forward to seeing you again. You can't go back twice in the same year.

I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.

If I don't do a bit of theatre at least once a year, I feel depleted and starved.

I don't want to fight once a year. I like fighting every other month.

There is not one country in this planet where Major Lazer doesn't want to perform.

I'd like to one day be able to say, 'I was in more than one play on Broadway.'

It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.

You know, one day you make putts and the next day you don't.

You really only have to use one half of your brain when you're deejaying.

I'm down to act a little bit - go on a couple auditions or make one of those three-second cameos with one line.

I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be' this person, you know? So then its like, if I'm really this person, how can I be in the moment if I know there's just one line I'm supposed to say? It doesn't feel natural. I always just kind of want to say whatever comes up.

Usually I work at the merch table until one minute before I have to go on stage.

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

It was one of the things that used to be on my rider when I would do my shows. I would always ask for a Klondike bar.

I'm a T-shirts, sweatpants, and jeans kind of gal; I dress really simply and comfortably. But one of the things I love about being an actor is that I get to wear amazing costumes.