Olivia Holt Quotes

I want to entertain, but I'm interested in a whole range of feelings.

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

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

Creating emotion was what my career was all about. I wanted people to laugh at me; I wanted people to cry with me. I wanted people to feel good or to think about something when they watched me. I think that's why, even not being an Olympic champion, I have such a huge following around the world.

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

My father had it, my mother had it; we wanted to entertain people.

I can stand at the back of the theater and watch an audience laugh, cry, and be moved by what I do. I can entertain people around the world. It's nice when you can give someone that gift.

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.

As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

I want to write, act, and direct!

I had two major activities as a child. I was trying to put on shows with kids in my street, or I was drawing. Actually, what I'm doing now is exactly what I was doing then. Either I'm drawing, or I'm gathering people for a common project. The only difference is that now they are paying me for that.

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion.

I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young.

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.

I love TV and I love making films and I love doing plays. I feel very lucky to be able to do all three.

The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another.

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

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.

I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that sense. My love for music has always been connected to the stories told through music, which is why I was drawn to theater and why I think 'Glee' is so powerful.

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.

We all go to the theater and cinema to be inspired and moved on an emotional level, sometimes to laughter, sometimes to tears. Once I discovered that acting could have such an effect, I was sold. It has been one of the most rewarding discoveries I have ever made.

I love singing as much as I love acting.