Linda Ronstadt Quotes

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

I like making people feel things. Acting doesn't seem like lying but like storytelling.

You can watch someone on-stage cry and cry - but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

Songs are like movies to me, and so you put yourself in the movie. You become a character in the movie.

The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.

Listen, acting is not surgery, it's entertainment. You're doing something to hopefully move people, to make them laugh, to transport them. But actors are vulnerable, and the reason we're vulnerable is that we're always trying to recreate human behaviour.

In a weird way, I live vicariously through the characters I play as an actor.

It was a big deal to me to play characters and feel things and connect to somebody in a fake world.

I sing as an actress. Whatever I'm singing about, I just become the story.

I regard singing pretty much like acting. Each song is like playing a different role. I get very involved with my material. I feel a responsibility for the emotion it brings out in the listener.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.

That's why I enjoy acting: getting in the mind of someone else.

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.

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.

With acting, I started very young, and I'd performed for a lot of children in boarding schools, late at night after the dormitory lights were out. I'd have a flashlight, and I'd be Count Dracula, or Shakespeare, or Yogi Bear, and leap from bunk to bunk. I loved the laughter; I liked the way it made people feel.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

I think actors always retain one foot in the cradle. We're switched on to our youth, to our childhood. We have to be because we're in the business of transferring emotions to other people.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

You know, it's recently come into focus for me why I want to be an actor: It's because of the connection I feel to people.