Joyce DiDonato Quotes

An actor has to embody a role.

Simple formula for the actor: prove you're creative enough to get the job, sane enough to keep the job, and hungry enough to give up everything else to keep them happy.

Actors have to be there and do the work, and that's enough.

I'm a trained actress and I can do it, but I think that you have to prove yourself.

Acting doesn't suffice.

As an actor, you don't have much choice about your appearance. It's a good excuse for looking ridiculous.

I might just be way too boring to ever be a really great actress.

I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to wear black 'at' people. I didn't just want to play Hamlet, I wanted to be Hamlet.

When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like.

Actors are divas, and we all make too much noise and complain too much, so if you don't do that, it makes you rather exceptional, apparently.

They asked me to sing - actually, it was Dee Dee, because he had seen me in Sniper and thought I wasn't like anybody else. Everybody else was doing an Iggy or a Mick Jagger.

I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer.

I'm not good at doing show business; I'm a theatre person. I don't reveal anything about my life.

I was watching TV, and there was a girl acting a fool. And I was like, 'I could do that.'

I talked to friends who are actors and who do Shakespeare loads, and they all said 'learn it so that your family wants to clobber you, they're so bored.' You can never relax, that's the problem, because when you do, a bit of Shakespeare comes up to bite your cheeky behind. It just does, if you're not really focused on it.

I would love to play, perhaps not exactly Mimi in 'Rent,' but someone like her. Perhaps not on Broadway, but I think I feel like a musical is in my future. I sing, although I'm not Whitney Houston up in here. I'm a little bit shy about my singing, but I did it in school at Juilliard.

You can't wait and sit for the phone to ring, so I do theater.

Wearing a monkey suit really lets you know where you stand as an actor.

All I want to do is be onstage. A performer needs to perform.

It's an acting job - acting natural.

Acting takes so much energy.

I think generally playing live is a crap idea. So much of stage work is the presentation of personality, and I've never been interested in that.

You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.

There are two main jobs in acting - the first one is to be a good actor, and the second one is to convince everyone that you're a good actor.

I'm a very shy person, and I never tried to do theater. I've been asked many, many times by the most incredible authors in America to do theater. And I always said no, not knowing what it is to be on the stage and to do theater.