Dean Winters Quotes

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

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

I would much rather be a bad Luise Rainer than a second someone else.

Clint Eastwood, to me, is Clint Eastwood. He's great at being Clint Eastwood. But, I don't know how to be that guy. I just don't know how to be one person.

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

You have to add something of yourself to the portrayal.

The more you see somebody else's version of something, the harder it is to make it your own.

If I was an actor, it would be like a part that was me. It has to be real to me. I have to make it mine. I really enjoy taking a song I feel that way about, and sometimes it can take a long time to come up with just the right touch. I think that's really my greatest talent, interpreting.

I think talent, especially in acting, is being wholly yourself within the context of yourself.

When you are cast for a role, it's because of everything that makes you who you are in that moment in time. No one else has that. That's a unique, powerful thing to hold.

Every role you do is kind of a side of yourself. That's why they give you the part.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

In the end, it's your job to own the role, and in the end, you are playing certain aspects of your own self, even.

I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something.

If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.

I didn't go to drama school or anything, and I learned on the job. And it's nice to have the chance to pretend to be other people. As a singer, though, I feel there's much more of me in that. I've written the songs, I'm singing them, I'm exposing my feelings.

I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate.

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

I grew up listening to Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, and Angela Lansbury, so I grew up wanting to sound like Patti and Bernadette. What I realized, though, is that I can't sound like that, and what makes their performances magical is their uniqueness.

I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes, but that's really not what giving someone goosebumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique.

I want everyone to express themselves in a unique way.

I'm not going to be able to play it like somebody else.

Acting really suited me because I could connect as an actor to emotion.