Performance Techniques Quotes

I've learnt how to develop routines. To play with each bit. To enjoy expanding on it. To get used to the stage being mine.

It's fascinating to work with a company of actors of such different ages, experience and talents. I'm one of a generation brought up on television whose acting is more 'naturalistic', whereas with some of the older generation it's more heightened. But I think there's room for both styles.

I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

I always knew I wanted to be a performance artist.

In earlier years, I was more of a clown with a big bag of tricks. I'd show up in the studio and kind of go, 'Well, what do you want? Do you want the screaming banshee or the howling owl?'

I have a degree in vocal performance, I'm a classically trained singer, and I studied musical theatre.

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on.

I went to college at North Carolina School of the Arts and took a lot of singing classes, and it really is so connected to emotions.

Ultimately your job as an actor is to perform however you're being asked to perform and there's many different procedures as an actor that you're going to run into that you should be prepared for and be ready to go to work and do the best you can and give the director the best thing you can to hopefully give him things on that day that could be shot preserved and out into a canned, then when they go into the editing room that's where a movie's made.

There's so much to learn about acting and performance in general... I mean, acting is a very complex art, and there are a lot more theories and methods and techniques to it than I think anybody would think.

The backstage stuff is not for everybody. I'm very hands on; I like to train and teach young guys now because there's so many of them. There are certain ways to do things, to get crowd reactions and sell your emotions and sell stories.

It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it's good work.

It is the same actor in theatre and cinema, just the technique of acting changes.

Look, a lot of directors were actors, even if they were unsuccessful actors which I think is helpful. I think it's a really helpful thing for a director to have experienced that. It helps you know how to talk to actors and how to get what you need from them.

I always think about stuff I learned, in any scene. Juilliard taught me a lot.

Dancing and singing are the two things that have stuck with me throughout my life.

The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.

It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

Learn licks and songs from records.

Animation is a fascinating area from an acting point of view because it's not really like anything else because you are only providing a portion of the performance. That's very inspiring and it forces you to do things in a different way - to tell stories through your voice.

It's hard being a Broadway actor going into film where you have to tone everything down. In theater, everything you're taught is to be big and broad and make everyone feel like they are right next to you, even in the last row of seats.

We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved.

I loved getting classical training in terms of acting. I would've stayed in acting school for the rest of my life if I could have. It was this amazing period of my life where everything was so safe.