Peggy Lee Quotes

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.

I put myself into character for my songs.

Each song, you're telling a story and acting.

I'm a method actress in my songs, which is why it's hard to sing them.

Singers have a lot in common with actors because you have to dig deep into a song and show the audience what you are feeling as you sing.

When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.

I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.

I learned how to be more theatrical and have more fun, and to take a song and sing it over and over again in different ways, and make it different each time. I'm not just singing the song - it's this thing that's affecting me.

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

My job always is to play a person, not to judge her.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

I became an actress and studied human emotions so that I could give the gift of feelings to my son. This is what my whole journey has been about.

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.

I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.

To me, a song is new every time I sing it.

That's what I love about acting and love and drama and art: that humanness we all share.

Acting is what I do with who I am.