Taylor Goldsmith Quotes

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.

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

To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.

What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

I think theater ought to be theatrical.

I do understand that onstage there are times when you think, 'I could not be more alive than I am at this moment. I can't do most things in life. This is what I'm for.'

Actors and magicians are both performers, and they represent things that are not necessarily who they are.

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

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

I just love entertaining. I will do anything - stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts - I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.

I do my best creating on stage.

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 think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don't have to show an exact picture of who I am.

My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.

I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn't know how else to get off, so I danced off. I've been dancing ever since, but I'm still a comedian.

All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer.

Well, acting itself is a form of rebellion, always. Getting up there in front of people, telling stories - you're kind of going against the grain to begin with, wanting to do that, don't you think? Why else would you do it? Except maybe as kind of a way to affirm your very existence.

I think acting is a gift.

Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

Music isn't what I do. It's who I am.

If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that!'

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'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.