Ryan Newman Quotes

The way I teach people to sing... I have them talk the lyric out until it sounds like something they really believe, like an actor with a monologue.

You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

Nobody sang better than my mom. That's why I've never even thought of singing for singing sake. I've always thought of a song as an acting piece, as a way to say something.

We singers have a different level of responsibility from other musicians. We have words that we must convey; we have meanings that we must convey through these lyrics.

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.

Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

I love acting. It's an interesting challenge to make something that doesn't exist appear like it's happening, and to do it in a real way.

It's not enough to hit the notes. There is no point in the singers just standing there and sounding wonderful if they're not connecting with the characters they are portraying.

I love acting and really taking on another person, another life.

I think acting is something that is within you. It's a very natural thing for me. It comes from myself, really.

An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor.

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

That is one of the first things my family, my mother and my grandfather, had taught me about acting: 'Use your eyes!' Not being able to do that physical aspect of it, and having to put it all into your voice? That was a little bit of a challenge.

For me really good acting is about subtext.

I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.

My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric with the music, it's much easier; but when you're standing there completely dry in front of the camera with no musical background, just a fine-tuned, get-this-emotional-story across, it's a very, very intense kind of focus.

When I write a song, I tap into the emotion and the feeling and then I use the emotion to write the words. It's the opposite when I act. I use the words and tap into the emotion.

I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.

When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.

I love the possibility that anything can happen in any moment with acting. That you have the opportunity to experience lives and adventures that you may not have otherwise.

I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.

When you are portraying somebody that has a very specific emotional weight, you feel like you're really starting to abandon your own body and go to someplace else.