Agyness Deyn Quotes

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Acting is about finding truth and finding the way to convey the truth.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.

For all the acting you can do, the actual soul of someone does somehow permeate through their work.

I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.

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.

I think acting, for me, is about play. It's about time, and it's about feeling, like there's a story to tell and I can tell it through my body and my voice.

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.

I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.

Actors are really working with bodies, with their minds, and with their emotions. Feelings, basically. That's what movies are about, going from one feeling to another.

The play is not in the words, it's in you!

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.

You have to learn to draw the same emotion you had when you wrote a song every time you perform it. Acting is the same way: You have to find those emotions and bring them to the surface, and then put them back when you're done.

It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling.

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

When I'm singing a song, I'm in that song, and I'm thinking about what emotions I should bring to the song. Voicing a character was very similar. It was high energy, and I had to really think about the emotion of what was going on in the scene.

Every character I've played is goofy, but it has to have some type of reality.

Singing is also like acting, since I memorize my lines, and I sing with emotions, too.

Acting is not about showing what you're feeling. It's about doing something. It's about what you're doing for the other person. Anything other than 'doing' is not grounded in the truth.

Dance is about portraying and telling a story and whether that be two males, two females, a group of guys, or a group of girls, it doesn't matter as long as the story is beautiful.