Quotes About Art

The only time you will ever see me in drag is when I am - What? Getting paid. It is my job.

Good acting is confused with good dialogue delivery. Acting is about all about performance, and the way we interpret and understand the character that we bring alive onscreen.

If I had my way, I'd always be onstage. But I won't always be able to be onstage.

My intention of making acting a career was about being onstage.

I thought I was going to be a lot more freaked out by being naked onstage. I think on film I would have been more freaked out, because film is less forgiving. But onstage it's lit so beautifully. It would make my mother look good.

I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

Onstage, I find absolutely nothing but exhilaration in not talking.

As soon as my foot is in the light onstage, I am home. It is what I love to do. It is what I have always loved to do.

I never wanted to be a magician. I never wanted to be a comedian. I never wanted to be onstage.

I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.

Singing and dancing will never grow old for me - I'd like to do that until I'm... actually, I think I'd like to drop dead onstage. I think that'd be just great.

I love being onstage, whether it's dancing or acting - there's just something about being onstage.

I would be onstage all the time if I could.

You can do stuff onstage that you can't do offstage. You can be angry as hell and enraged and get away with it onstage, but not off.

There's something about getting onstage in a play where the actor tells the story, beginning, middle, and end, the way they want to tell it. For me, it's the most powerful place to be, and it's the most empowering place to be.

Theatre comes alive when someone cross-dresses onstage.

That's part of what made me interested in theater as a kid. It made it acceptable to be a man for an hour onstage.

A lot of people get a high from being onstage. I found ways to enjoy it. But I get it from being in the studio.

I always loved the sheer physical act of being onstage.

You get onto the stage; you can shout and express yourself. Your negative energy gets consumed.

'My Night at Maud's,' 'Claire's Knee,' 'Chloe in the Afternoon' are grafted onto my life.

I'm an artist with a message, and my message is more for society, casting the mirror onto them and saying, 'Hey, this is what we look like, what are we going to do about it, how are we going to use what we've been through to aid where we're going.'

To walk into a studio, for me, is just like walking onto a beach or something.

I loved music before I stumbled onto acting.