Quotes About Expression

What I love so much about drag is that it has politics at its very core; drag performers aren't afraid to talk about politics in our community and the changes we need to see systemically in society.

You need actors and performers, but there has to be content in a film.

I think what actors have to do, what performers have to do to emotionally get to that place and have a camera and have your face 20 feet high on a screen, is such an incredible thing.

I have always had a performers instinct since I was a child.

The only thing that I can contribute as director is to work with the performers in a way that brings out the drama.

I wanted to break the idea of what male performers are supposed to show, what performances girl groups are supposed to show. I really wanted to break those labels, showing that dance is a form of art.

You can do 'Hamlet' while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real.

No, we've been performing our old songs a little differently each performance.

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

If you're performing music that is not who you are or where you're at, it is painful. It's painful for the performer and for the audience.

I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the show now.

I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

Life does not measure up to performing... Performing is perfect.

I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me.

I love performing. I love the people. I sound like Liza Minnelli right now, don't I?

Performing doesn't come that naturally to me, even though I've done it for years.

Performing is an experience, for me, that is as humbling as it is energizing.

Performing is my passion.

I'm not one of these guys who is dedicated to playing or performing - that's just one facet of my life.

When I go onstage and am performing the way I want to... I finally feel like myself.

I just loved performing. It just made me feel alive. It's scary, but that's part of it. I think it's important to have that extra adrenaline. It gives you that extra zing.

I love performing. The more I do it, the more I grow into it.

I'm a fan of making films. Whether I'm on stage or in front of a camera, one of my first loves is performing for the people. I'd like to do more acting.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.