Rod Lurie Quotes

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.

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

I loved playing a dramatic role. There's a side of me a lot of people don't know, and when I do dramatic roles, it just all comes out.

I think a lot of comedians make the best dramatic actresses because they have a facility. They're very vulnerable. They're very open, like clowns.

The stage is like a magnifier of thoughts and emotion and vibration; that's what the stage is incredible for because it makes you live other lives. It makes you experience other emotions. It makes you feel more beautiful or more alone or more angry. It makes you feel much more, more, more.

I like doing stuff that is sad or angry. It's a challenge, because you're doing a mix of scenes and you're making a person.

When I read what 'GLOW' was about, it just felt like something where I could make as many faces as I wanted, and it would totally make sense!

The writer's job is the job of a clown …the clown who also talks about sorrow.

It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.

Everybody thinks performance capture is about thrashing around and doing a lots of movement, but it's actually about being able to contain and think and be believed in a close-up, as much as anything else.

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

'Funny People' is my favorite performance of myself to date. Even though it's a comedy and there are serious moments, I really felt like Leo felt like a real person. It didn't feel like I was playing myself. Whether it's a comedy or drama, I just try to make it as realistic as possible.

I did a film called 'Floating' early on that had a scene which was similar to a real-life situation I was in at the time. It involved me having a conversation with my father, who was dying. It was close to home and it made me realise acting wasn't just making faces for the cameras, it was a real art form.

You have to be smart to play a dumb blonde over and over again and keep the audience's attention without extraordinary physical equipment.

When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

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

With 'Richard,' I was excited to make this film with such an amazing role for an actor. Play a wide range of emotion and really invest myself in the character.

Doing a scene truthfully is very similar to doing a song truthfully. They're really parallel.

I want to paint something that's gorgeous, something that's perfect. So that it's full of sadness.

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

Acting is a mysterious process.

To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it's comedy or drama - I think timing is important in either. But for me, it's all about having a character to work on.

I just play the little guy, except I play him through dance.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.