Arnel Pineda Quotes

There's probably a lot of people wondering if I can play.

They asked me to sing - actually, it was Dee Dee, because he had seen me in Sniper and thought I wasn't like anybody else. Everybody else was doing an Iggy or a Mick Jagger.

I think I'm good enough to play and sing.

I'm a mezzo-soprano, so the whole diva thing... I'm not the kind of performer who puts on a persona off-stage as well, and the days of arriving with steamer trunks and hat boxes are over.

I can't dance and I can't sing too well.

On any given night - there are nights that you feel better. There are nights that you are vocally better. There are nights that you are not as vocally good. No question about it.

At the age of eight, I auditioned for 'The Sound of Music' and made it through to the third round, where we all stood in a row like the Von Trapp family and had to sing.

I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing and I know that I can act.

I'm a trained actress and I can do it, but I think that you have to prove yourself.

I think I should be a nightclub singer. I love to sing!

You just can't walk into a venue, sit behind your drums, and expect to play a great show. It'll never happen.

Being an actor is lot like being a dancer: you always have to go back to the bar and either work or take classes. Otherwise, you'll get rusty.

I want to grow as a vocalist, and I want to really kill every single show and just become better.

I've really improved, I think, as far as just being able to get up onstage with my guitar and sing.

For the first 25 years of my career, I did nothing but sing and dance.

Good looks may be enough for a heroine, but to become an artiste, you need at least a working knowledge of the language.

We're very much perfectionists, so when we're putting on a huge show and want to play to the best of ability, we rehearse intensely. And I have a guitar pretty much in my hand for at least five hours before doing a show. I'm just noodling and mucking around and working on some of the songs here and there.

Being a bass player in these big-time rock bands is hard work.

All I know about acting is that I just have to keep on doing it.

I am a seasoned performer.

You know, I come from an acting background.

I love acting, and I'm going to continue doing that.

I've always been a bit of a clown. But I think the seminal moment was when I was sixteen, and I auditioned for a little production of The 'Wizard of Oz,' and I was like, 'Clearly I'm Dorothy!' And they were like, 'We'd like you to play the Wicked Witch.'

I would love to play, perhaps not exactly Mimi in 'Rent,' but someone like her. Perhaps not on Broadway, but I think I feel like a musical is in my future. I sing, although I'm not Whitney Houston up in here. I'm a little bit shy about my singing, but I did it in school at Juilliard.

I think there are a lot of actors who are excellent at cold reads, and they go to an audition, and they read the part and nail it, but then when it comes to the performance, they don't have something.