David Hallberg Quotes

I don't have a favorite genre. I love to work and live vicariously through every character. It's all about trying to bring the character to life and get the story across in a way that resonates with the audience. It's always interesting and challenging in a gratifying and unique way.

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

I like dramatic ballets, particularly if they're ballets in which I have a chance to go from one extreme of style or characterization to another.

It's such a gift when you know who you're writing for and you know that that actor is capable of so much that you can relax a bit.

Strictly' has evolved - there are such beautiful stories within each dance. We're not doing a ballroom and Latin competition, it's an entertainment show.

What we portray on the ice is really important to us, and we love getting into character and telling a story.

After 'Mulk,' I figured it's your voice that people are connecting with. So then my voice became of prime importance to me for my films.

With writing fiction, I'm either not courageous enough or just not suited for telling truths in a more conventional way. As an actor, I inhabit those characters as I'm writing them.

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

If you are opening a play, a play that's really about something, a play that's really about ideas, you have to find a way to sell that play.

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

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

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.

I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.

I still love finding the soul of the characters I play and defining who they are. This to me is my paint set, and the colors are always exciting to choose.

An actor's job is about putting across the author's intention; I don't think of myself on the same level as a creator.

Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

There are always dimensions, and the way they get expressed is through the writing and the actors and the director you get to work with on that day. But there are always dimensions, outside of really basic stuff for very young people where it needs to be very clear.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member.