Powerful Performance Quotes

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

I remember seeing Janet McTeer in A Doll's House. My grandmother took me and we had seats in the very back row, but her performance was so powerful - it was very accessible. I felt like I was much closer than I was.

'If I Loved You.' All the way. Totally intimidated by it. From the outside, it has this aura of being one of the greatest musical theater scenes ever written.

Amazingly talented singer who sang like an angry angel

I wanted to go beyond what K-pop is typically perceived as, and through 'Move' I was able to show a concept that's more edgy, more powerful.

I get to be in movies where it's mostly dialogue, and I want to be in something, that for me, feels like kickboxing.

Two gay guys doing a beautiful duet - I think it would just be so powerful, you know.

I'm hooked on Glenn Close in 'Damages.'

I loved Jennifer Lawrence's performance in 'Winter's Bone.'

I love Robin Wright so much. She's one of my favorite actresses; she's incredibly powerful.

When I was about 16 or 17, I had a teacher who took a group of us to the National Theater in Washington, D.C., and I saw Ian McKellen do his one-man show - I think it was called Acting Shakespeare - and it completely bombed me; it put the zap on my brain in a big way.

Debra Winger blows me away, always.

I have seen 'A Wednesday,' and it is a wonderful film.

Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.

Weight is crucial and it is very beneficial - if you have spare weight in Formula One that is powerful performance.

Mumaith Khan has unbelievable energy. She is a powerhouse performer.

The first time I heard Bird play, it hit me right between the eyes.

With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them because she brought such a power and passion to them that were very unique. She has a great gift.

We want to connect all these musical worlds together. We just improvise; we know straight away if its going to work or not. They're not covers - I hate the word cover. We do a transcription: mix it up, put our own spin on it. I think people will be surprised how powerful our show is.

That was the bat signal for me - 'Rent' changed my life. It took me years before I got beyond that show.

Every actor wants to find a piece of work that's innovative and powerful and moving.

I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.

I haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry.

I was 14. I went to see a production of 'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,' and when they got to that final song, 'If We Only Have Love,' it was like the top of my head had blown off.

'The Last Five Years' is this quintessential piece, and every song is an actor's song, and every song is incredibly difficult and incredibly powerful and incredibly amazing. It was one of those things in college where, like, you gauged how good you were by how well you were able to pull off a song from 'The Last Five Years.'