Winona Ryder Quotes

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

For me music is so passionate. I have to give it my all every time I go onstage.

Acting is real important to me. I love it, and it's something I care about.

The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing. As long as you're having fun with it and giving it 100 percent, they're gonna feel that.

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.

On stage, I think I'm 35. Working takes over my whole body and I become a younger man - that's why I won't stop.

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

Live shows were always religion for us. We never played a show - whether it was in front of 15 people or 15,000 - where it wasn't everything we had that night.

For a performer, passion is far more important than technical skills. If a dancer's leg isn't at a perfect angle, I can see past that, but if someone's dead in the face, it's really boring.

Acting is something I'm extremely passionate about.

I think acting is definitely the most fulfilling, because it's the most challenging in my mind.

I love acting. I just love it. It's in my bones.

I have only one hobby and that is acting. It's my passion, my hobby, so I don't need a break to pursue my hobby.

As an actor, I love challenges.

Once you're out there in front of people, I don't think there's any choice than to just give it your all.

I am always excited to be an actor. If I wasn't, I would be acting, and the audience wouldn't watch me.

When we get on stage, naturally, you just get out there and work it as hard as you humanly possibly can do it.

I've loved acting since I can remember.

When I'm playing in the band, I'm sweating - giving 120 percent.

I pride myself on the energy I put on stage.

As far as being an actor is concerned, you have to have passion. If you're not bringing the passion of the character into the room with you, you might as well not come into the room at all.

My passion is acting, and has always been. It's what brought me to this point of being able to diversify and do other things, and I hope it's something I'll continue to have a passion for.

I love to act. I want to be doing this forever, and I love to learn from people who I think are better.

I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.

To put on a performance, you have to be emotional. You can't be a zombie.