Brynn Cartelli Quotes

When you're playing music and you're starting to expose yourself for the first time, there's nothing more powerful than being listened to and being actually heard.

There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.

Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

Being in front of all these people staring at you and it helps you to dig down and become more emotional and get lost in it as you're feeding on people's energy.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do.

In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something.

There are times I've been surprised by how emotional I can be on stage.

I don't want to make people cry - unless it's with happiness.

When I saw how people would react and be touched by my voice, this was the moment I thought maybe there's something more to this than just singing around the house.

On stage, it's very naked. There's a reason you shake your knees. You're very vulnerable, cos it's just you, your body is the instrument. But I always had confidence in my voice, if I had the right song, the right words to sing.

People often reach out and comment on how they relate to my lyrics, which makes me feel very warm inside.

I had no idea what being on stage would be like or how I'd react to the applause. I didn't think I deserved their applause. Then I realized I'd done something to make them feel something. That made it okay. But it was weird. A nice weird.

I'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people.

I am inspired by seeing kindness in others. It touches me and reminds me to be kind as well.

I show them the funny part, the silly part, the laughing part, the crazy part and then the really deep, deep part where I'm talking from my heart to these people. Because I've been through everything they've been through.

I've never been heckled. I think because I look too small and vulnerable. Sometimes I look out into the audience and see pity in their eyes, so I guess those people may be the ones who would shout something out if they didn't feel so sorry for me.

I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company 'Synergy' in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

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

In the same way that I'm open when I speak, I'm that open on stage. I feed off the energy of the audience, too, so they're feeling what I'm feeling.

It's a unique thing to stand in front of a crowd and sing your songs.

I want to break into the acting industry. It's something I have a great deal of respect for; it's a passion of mine. It's so amazing, the differences between acting and being an athlete, but the one commonality is they both evoke emotion in the viewer. And those emotions are real. So I think that's pretty cool.