Quotes About Expression

I just like to write and then perform.

Latinos are very passionate, and they perform a lot, and look at me, I'm talking with my hands, and this is just my normal self, so it kind of allows me to be who I am and not dumb it down.

That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.

As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.

I'm like a dude. Jordans are my favorite. I wear them all the time for shows. I can get girly-girly when I want to, but I can't perform in heels. I would bust my face open on stage, and we don't want that.

I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.

I've been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform.

What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but try it.

I like a performance, a live performance, so I like little mistakes because that's what makes perfect - the mistakes.

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

I'm committed to an honest expression, not necessarily a performance.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

I don't think it's necessary to be an actor to get great performances out of an actor. But I do think it helps me as a director because I know what I like as an actor, and I try to get that to the actors who I'm working with.

I love actors; I love seeing great performances. I just love that, when I'm seeing a performance, that inside me, I just go, 'Oh my God, how are you doing that? Where is that coming from?' Where you see an actor do something, and I can't even locate it in my own body.

When I started doing drag, I always put together multimedia elements for live performance.

I owe so much of my musical growth to my exploration and performance of Carnatic music.

I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.