Quotes About Performance

Acting and making music are quite complementary. Acting relies on someone else's writing and direction; writing music or lyrics doesn't. But they are both creative and personal in completely different ways.

Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.

I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value.

I like babies, but not in the front row. I don't want to sing directly to a baby.

Working with Bob Weir directly, we learned how high the bar is for Dead music.

I'm huge on the dynamic of my show and the experience, not just performing songs. It's important to me to make sure that people experience every song, and feel like I'm singing directly to them. Your eyes never want to leave the stage because there's always something happening.

Every actress has a line she'll draw, where she'll say, 'This I will do and this I won't.' For me, everything has to be important to the story and the director has to be able to tell me why.

It does make you a better director and a better actor.

As a director, it is important to understand the actor's process.

If you're a movie actor, you're on your own - you cannot control the stage. The director controls it.

I was a director and dialogue and acting coach.

The audience has always been my best director.

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

As a director you come in and tell the actors how good they are.

I'm an actress who likes a strong, communicative director.

Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.

I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.

I was taken to one place by a director, and he bought me a lap dance.

You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think when you're working with professional actors, it's all about trust. They can do anything you want, it's just a matter of them understanding what you're looking for, and the reason why.

There are no bad actors. There are only bad directors who cannot make their actors act.

Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

Directors never give you anything.

Where else do you find great directors? Acting is one of the places.