Quotes About Performance

I have been doing action roles for a while and really wanted to explore the other side of my personality on screen.

Every time I get a role, or the opportunity to explore a role, I look at it, and I think, 'What is the story we're trying to tell here?'

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

A really fun part of getting to be an actor is exploring those parts of yourself that you wouldn't otherwise explore.

Building a character - nothing gives me more high than the process of exploring someone else's life on screen.

Stage is all real; it's just as honest except it's bigger. I love stage, I love TV and film, so I think I'll just keep exploring and try to keep a really full picture.

Well, I think that the most exciting stage of any tour is getting the tour together. Because when new material works, there is no other feeling like that. It's just brilliant. And for the first half of the tour, you're still often finding the extra stuff in that material. You're exploring it every night.

Gaslight Anthem's thing is its power. It's just like boom and explosions and loud, and play with everything you got.

I'm not explosive. I can't jump.

I was always against starting the show with new material because the fans don't know it. They just look at you, and it's not explosive.

You need explosive plays to win.

If you write your own material and perform your own material, then nobody can really expose it because if you keep your secrets close to yourself, then nobody can really expose you.

If you compromise in the casting it is bound to expose eventually.

I think wrestling was the most fantastical thing I was exposed to.

I enjoy the more floaty, exposed, elegant singing.

I think it's interesting for people to be exposed to ballet in areas they wouldn't necessarily expect to see it.

We've all had that moment, the first time you're exposed to live theater, and it's shocking in the best possible way. You see something and say to yourself, 'I didn't know this could exist.'

Whatever you are good at, do it, but don't be over exposed.

Most actors hate readthroughs - they're exposing themselves before they're ready to, and before they've bonded. But I love them because they give us all the first inkling of what the whole show is going to be like, how each part affects every other part, and we won't see that again until it's all edited together.

We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.

Athletes will get result with training and proper exposure. Money should be spent on them for exposure. We should send them for competitions in Europe.

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

I enjoyed entertaining people since I was a little girl. There was nothing better than making people laugh. That, and the need to express myself in a safe environment.

It's almost better most times to not talk in a scene. I think you can actually express a lot more without words.