Christina Hendricks Quotes

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll.

Acting is all about big hair and funny props... All the great actors knew it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

I am a performer; that's what I like to do.

I still believe that 'No Smoking' is one of my best performances.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's the fun of what we do.

It's about what happens on stage, whether we can deliver it in a hungry way that is who we are in our hearts.

I do my best creating on stage.

Whether I am on a stage, behind a guitar or in front of a camera, I get paid to misbehave. Fortunately, misbehaviour is something I have unlimited supply of.

An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.

I'm a total performer.

I'm a performer.

I never smoke to excess - that is, I smoke in moderation, only one cigar at a time.

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

I see myself as an entertainer.

I do smoke in real life. A lot. We're all smoking right now in fact.

Acting doesn't suffice.

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage.