St. Lucia Quotes

So much about getting onstage is creating a connection with an audience that allows you to go different places and try different things.

I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment.

I tend to make bolder and more interesting choices after I've done theatre.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.

I would just stand there puzzled, then realize this would be a great place to make a show.

As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

If you do television, and it's great, it's the best job there is. Every week it's another opportunity to really make that work and figure out how to make it work better. I love that it's like theater too, and the audience, and it's so short, like twenty minutes... It's like a Haiku or something.

I don't think I'm an entertainer. I never think, 'Wow, I can't wait to get the crowd moving.' Some of my favorite bands never moved an inch.

I want to try everything I can; I want to push my boundaries and experiment with characters and genres that I have yet to try.

I want to work with performers who really are ready to lose their minds, you know? People who are established and have talent, but who are ready to break new ground and really be cracked open in a new way.

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

I think the best directors provide you with a safe environment where they can instill you with confidence and allow you to try things out and not feel like you're failing or that you're doing it wrong.

There was always that thing with 'Johnny' - I always saw myself as his writer and PR. But when he got out there, I had no control. His whole thing was going off on those flights of fancy. Going, 'Let's see what we can possibly do that hasn't been done before up here.' And when it works, it's lovely; it's a great night.

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

As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.

You know. I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes. All that kind of stuff to do sometimes, to do good performances, but always conducive to having a good time creatively.

The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.

Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of that can really carry a lot.

I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone. There's an amazing interaction with the audience that happens because they are very much another scene partner.

When they are performing in front of the public, they ought to have a sensation that's relatively easy, if the technical and the interpretive work was done before.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

I see myself as not a typical theater person, but a person who uses the theater as a place to meet people and explore ideas.

I am the kind of person that wants to get up in front of crowds of strangers and perform monologues. To each their own.

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.