“Singing is like going to a party at someone else's house. Acting is like having the party at your own house.” ActorsHousePartyActingSinging Author:Cher
“My dad took me for an audition once, to show me, OK, you want to be a child actor, this is what its like. I sang a folk song about donkeys on this West End stage with this big director, and there was a queue of 200 girls all singing Memory. I was terrible. Terrible.” WantChildrenEndsShowsBigsSongGirlActorsMemoriesStageDadTerribleDirectorsSingingWestMy DadFolksShow MeAuditionsDonkeyQueuesChild ActorsFolk SongsWest End Author:Emilia Clarke
“Acting is a difficult profession, it really is. It's different than singing. With singing you may have one song and four people to record it - but they'll all do it differently and they'll all have that option. Whereas with actors there might be one part, and five hundred actors all want the same role - it's so much more competitive. It's an incredibly painful profession because you get so much rejection.” PeopleWantMayDifferentMightSongActorsDifficultActingRolesRecordsFiveFourSingingHundredPainfulProfessionRejection Author:Olivia Newton-John
“My experience of singing, as an actor, was that there's a different creative feeling of freedom. The acting thing is a bit more defined and cerebral. I can see why people would want to cross over. If you have so much freedom on stage then perhaps you want to be confined a bit, and vice versa.” PeopleIfsWantI CanDifferentFeelingsActorsBitsActingCreativeStageSingingCrossesVicesDefinedConfinedVice VersaCerebral Author:Orlando Bloom
“What dancing has helped me with is blocking; it makes me comfortable with my body. You know how to hit your mark, you know how to embody a swagger. But sitting down and looking across the table at another actor and being able to go to battle on screen is nothing to do with singing or dancing.” KnowsBodyAbleActorsKnow HowBattleComfortableSingingSittingMarkDown AndTablesDancingScreensBlockSitting DownSwagger Author:Columbus Short
“I wish it was a little easier for an actor to later go into singing and have it be accepted, but maybe I can still do it.” LittlesStillsI CanActorsWishEasierSingingAccepted Author:Zachary Levi
“I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer.” WayActorsApproachSingingSingersJerseyDialect Author:John Lloyd Young
“I consider myself a method singer, not a method actor. I applied method acting to singing.” ActorsActingSingingMethodSingersMethod Acting Author:Tony Bennett
“I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.” FirstsActorsTermSingingPerformancesTraditional Author:Billy Eichner
“When I opened my mouth to sing as a kid, I kind of randomly had a really good singing voice. And so that put me on the actor track and the musicals track.” KindKidsActorsVoiceSingingMouthsTrack Author:Billy Eichner
“God bless him, I mean a lot of times you get non-actors on a set and they get really self-conscious, especially when doing something crazy like singing along with Phil Collins. They get sort of reserved and self-conscious. Mike [Tyson] completely trusted Todd [Phillips] and totally put everything into it.” MeanSelfActorsCrazySingingConsciousBlessTrustedMikeGet RealSelf ConsciousReservedGod BlessTyson Author:Ed Helms
“There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.” ActorsIndustrySingingResistancePerformingDisloyal Author:Kevin Bacon