Rob Marshall Quotes

Singing and dancing are the greatest emotional outlets you can have.

I loved musicals because I felt like breaking out in song makes so much sense to me because it's the stakes of how you feel inside!

These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way.

I started to use music almost like a therapist, where it's like, everything that I don't really dare to say or speak about, I can sing about.

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

Acting is like free therapy! Trying to make people laugh or cry can be inspiring.

I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

Singing allowed me to express myself in ways that I wouldn't be able to do otherwise.

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

In 'Seesaw,' I played Gittel Mosca, and because it was a musical, I loved it more because I was able to do anything. I was able to use all parts of me that I don't get to use... the comedy and the singing and the dancing.

Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.

The interesting thing about acting is using all your own stuff and having some kind of personal catharsis while you're working.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

When musicals don't work, they really don't work. But when they work, and someone is singing because they can't speak anymore, or they're dancing because they can't move anymore, moving is not enough to express - it's this beautiful thing.

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.

I can express the brooding part of myself on-screen. It's kind of fun to get to do the bratty things I really wouldn't do. And then I get to go back to my regular life.

Singing is the form I've chosen to express myself. It's the way I emote best.

When people give me the choice to either sing or dance, I'd rather dance than sing.

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.

My first mixtape especially - that came from a heartbreak.

There is something to the fact that when you're on stage or when you're playing someone else, you're able to transmute all the things inside you that maybe get a bit blocked by the wall of shyness, or the wall of anxiety, or [by] overthinking. They sort of fall away in that moment and channeled into something else.

When I'm going through something that has a big impact on my life, it's much easier to sing.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

I find it hard to talk and say things, but I can always sing about them.