Pierre Boulez Quotes

Acting is an emotion which has to be felt. Some feel it, some don't!

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

I go for as much feeling as I can rather than show what I can do up and down the neck. I don't play to show people ability.

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

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

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

To put on a performance, you have to be emotional. You can't be a zombie.

Acting is a mysterious process.

A performer needs to feel the part to be the part!

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

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.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.

You have to learn to draw the same emotion you had when you wrote a song every time you perform it. Acting is the same way: You have to find those emotions and bring them to the surface, and then put them back when you're done.

When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it's truly awesome and very powerful.

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.

What I'm trying to do is just sing what comes to my body in the context of the song. And if you go by the emotion of the song, it's almost like stepping into a city. Cities have certain customs and rules and laws you can break, and that's what I was doing.

You can't be, like, smashing guitars against Marshall stacks all the time. As a matter of fact, after a while, it just looks like posing - it never really gets down to any message or any real expression.

I think I'm sort of method in a sense, and I enjoy, you know, trying to find that reality in fake emotion.

The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and deepest emotions.

It's a wonderful thing to watch an actor just act.

Singing involves a great deal of psychology.