Quotes About Performance

I felt like when you're an actor, you don't get to fully creatively express yourself - most of the time, it's not your own writing or direction.

I think it's being able to do both, obviously being able to play your role in the team and those responsibilities but also being able to have that freedom... to express yourself in the way that you play.

It's a different kind of feeling which can not be expressed while playing for home team and I hope that I would be doing well in the IPL.

Theatre is known as a beautiful form of art where an actor expresses his emotions and feelings without any re-takes.

Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.

When I'm writing Broadway, it's for a character, a man, a woman, an old guy, a kid. In the band, you're talking in your own voice in the lyrics, saying what you think or feel. On Broadway, you're expressing that through a character.

It's a constant challenge to get your arrangement and musical expression across to a new audience, especially when you're playing live every night like we are.

Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.

Singing your own songs is all about individual expression.

I think K-Pop is a type of expression.

I love doing concerts, and I think my songs get another expression and energy when they are being played live.

The computer is limited in expression. It can't do what the human player can do. What's dangerous is that you fall for writing for the computer and what sounds good on it instead of writing something that actually sounds good when a player performs it. It's dangerous when you go down that road.

I found it more challenging to act in a small scene, especially if it has no dialogue and if it is a close-up with only expressions.

'Khamoshi' gave me the chance to prove that expressions can also say what dialogue could.

Once you've established where you are, you go to the character and elaborate on expressions and action.

Giving the voice and expressions to a character is giving it a soul.

I never really think of acting and directing as being separate; they are just different expressions of the same thing.

Why shouldn't I be confident? I'm well educated, I can deliver a line, and I have more than three expressions. That's good right?

Completing your performance with your own voice is so important. It's not only my face and expressions... the voice added to it always feels good.

But I was always comedic and would tell stories and use a lot of expressions.

I loved Suriya's performance in 'Vaaranam Aayiram'; his expressions in the movie, especially the train sequences, were really fresh.

As an actor, it doesn't matter to me if I play the role of a mother, with or without make-up and so on. I focus only on getting the expressions and acting right.

I am more expressive when I dance.

When you're out there and you finally get to play extended minutes and you do well, it reaffirms your confidence.