Morgan Neville Quotes

When I'm acting, I'm in a different place, singing is the last thing on my mind, and when I'm on stage, there's no acting at all involved, not even presentation, it's just who I am.

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 body cannot lie. You cannot be somebody else onstage, no matter how good of an actor or dancer or singer you are. When you open your arms, move your finger, the audience knows who you are, you know.

I have trouble watching singers because they are so sincere.

I think if you want to get to know me, you should come and see a show. A person might get to see more sides of me.

I love to act and put on a show, but you're playing a character all the time. For music, it's really just me being myself.

I sing like a girl.

There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.

Nobody knows I sing. Even though I've done Broadway musicals. I would only pick it over acting because it's such a pure form of emotional expression.

It was a slow process of getting closer and closer to my actual personality on stage. And now there's very little separation. I definitely find the more open and vulnerable I am, the more people enjoy it.

It has been my experience that the greatest performers in the genre of sports-entertainment are usually natural extensions of their own, true personality.

I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about. I just stand there and sing. And I don't do stunts or anything. if I wanted to do all that, I don't think I'd get away with it.

I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style!

Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow.

But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

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.

I feel that I'm sort of playing me but more feminine, and to me more feminine means smarter.

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

I was putting forward too much of myself when I was singing.

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

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

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 kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say.

I love to sing and I do think that my strength as a singer is... I think I have a voice that is certainly sufficient under most any circumstances... but I think my strength is that I really am an actor and I really do have to own what I am saying.

The human voice is the organ of the soul.