Crystal Bowersox Quotes

As an actor, you try to put a little bit of yourself in everything you do.

I open myself up every time I walk on screen and give you everything that I am. There are parts of me that are in every movie that I've done. That to me is what my job is.

One of the things I'm always reminded of when I'm back on stage is how much you have to be aware of and in control of. There is no tight shot. There is no 'we're only shoulders-up this time.' No, from the top of your head to your pinky toe, you're telegraphing part of the story the entire time you're up there.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

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

The most fun you can possibly have as an actor is to walk that line between what's real and what's interesting.

I'm on fire when I'm singing, I'm completely in character, I use my sense memories, and every syllable of it is meant. It's a very special thing.

To put on a performance, you have to be emotional. You can't be a zombie.

Actors have to make you believe that it's happening for the first time and all that jazz and make it human and at the same time entertain you.

Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

Sincerity and the correct use of the voice are the greatest things in the art of acting.

When I'm singing a song, I'm in that song, and I'm thinking about what emotions I should bring to the song. Voicing a character was very similar. It was high energy, and I had to really think about the emotion of what was going on in the scene.

As an actress, my best tools are my emotions and expressions.

Doing voiceover is so much fun because you can play with the lines as much as you want. You can put a whole bunch of energy into it, jump up and down, whatever you got to do.

Singing is also like acting, since I memorize my lines, and I sing with emotions, too.

I think as an actor, you have to make yourself vulnerable to emotions.

As an actor, I draw from myself.

Everything evolves naturally in life. It's not limited to beauty or music. The more experience you get, the more you find out about yourself. Everything becomes more and more an expression of the real you. I can play different characters. Sometimes I feel tomboy or glam or playful. When you perform, you can convey emotions differently, and your look can reflect each of those emotions.

Being singer is different than being an actor, where you call up sources from your own experience that you can apply to whatever Shakespeare drama you're in. But an actor is pretending to be somebody, a singer isn't. And that's the difference. Singers today have to sing songs where there's very little emotion involved. That and the fact that they have to sing hit records from years gone by doesn't leave a lot of room for any kind of intelligent creativity.

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

The minute I start to talk about acting, I realize that I can't. You know, it's an abstract thing, a little bit mysterious even if you do it for a living.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

For me, acting is doing.

The art of acting is to pitch good. You do the pitching and hope that the other person catches the ball and does some good pitching back to you.