Quotes About Interpretation

The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or book to script to film. If I play Frank Sinatra, there's gonna be things I do in a movie that Frank might not have done, but it's the personality that comes across.

The more I have a sincere connection to something, the less acting is required. And the more it's about creating the space to feel that connection and to feel that shift from yourself. And start interpreting things through new eyes.

Words change over time. 'Condescending,' for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant that a person was willing to interact politely with people of lower social ranks. In Jane Austen's world, a lady praised for her condescension was receiving a sincere compliment.

It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap.

Listening to Nat Cole prompted me to sing sentimental songs with distinct diction.

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

When you sing for a film, you are not in control, because somebody else is directing it; somebody is doing the lyrics.

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer.

I don't really look at dubbing from a singer's shoes.

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

I know that I am a singer and an actor, yet in order to give the public the impression that I am neither one nor the other, but the real man conceived by the author, I have to feel and to think as the man the author had in mind.

Every good singer is a good actor.

I'm not a jazz singer.

If you're a good singer, you're going to make anything sound good.

I'm not a very good singer. I just know how to present a song, and honey, I think I've been through enough to do it right.

I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.

I'm quite a particular singer, and I need to feel like I can bite into the song, in a way, to make it my own. You want the challenge of the songs having some attitude.

When you label something a singer-songwriter record, you cover many genres.

First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

Composers, artists, actors, singers - all of them, I think, unconsciously learn from others. I'm sure it's not conscious, but they can't help it.

Lou Reed is something like a personal favorite of mine, but you could always put me into that drawer of singers who can't really sing, who speak their songs.

Actors and singers share common ground in that they both express something.

I know what I want at least, and the older I get I think I'm better at getting it out of players and singers.