Conrad Ricamora Quotes

The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

I love writing songs and being a musician, but you can't really buy the feeling of connecting with people.

On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.

It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

I love acting it's apart of me and I try to put a little bit of myself in each of my roles.

I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

As an actress I just want to tell beautiful stories.

I watched Mark Rylance in the Broadway revival of 'La Bete,' and it knocked my socks off. The complete commitment, passion, and unbridled enjoyment in every moment of what he was doing was overwhelming.

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

I want to do stage again, because there just aren't words for how great it is. People say that all the time, 'There's nothing like live theater, blah blah,' but it's really true. I see a show and I know how they feel, and it feels great.

When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.

After I perform 'My Girlfriend's Boyfriend,' it takes a lot out of me emotionally; and, at the end of it, I feel like I know the audience and the audience knows me. It's this weird unspoken bond that we'll kind of always have with each other.

Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.

I loved my role on Who's the Boss? There is always some of me in every character that I play.

Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!

All actors know that the real adrenaline rush is in doing theatre. There is an immediate connect, and a role in a play, for an actor, is the biggest temptation.

If you don't have a certain amount of stage fright, then it's not going to be that interesting. It's not going to have the inner vibration. I think screen work needs inner vibration.

To me, it's the kiss of death when you start winking at the audience as an actor. I just never liked it. I don't like it when we do monologues, looking into the character.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

As an actor, you know when you've got great material in front of you. When you're working, you think, 'Is this the one? The one that everyone will respond to and be moved by?' You pray that you have told the story well... that your peers will see it and audiences will love it.

Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different.

As an actor, it's exciting to play a role that's so far from what you are and to have people respond to it like a real human being!

There's a romance and power to live theater.

I love the power of theater. I think it's an experience you never forget.