Quotes About Performing

I can't wait to get out on the road with Michael McDonald and his band. There is some deep history between us, and it's always a great hang.

I've always sang a little like a 16-year-old girl, but even Ann-Margret stopped after a while and brought it down a bit.

My experience of performing in Gurgaon has been very satisfying.

I've been in dance schools since I was four. I went to the Brit school. I did adverts and plays.

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

I did Second City, and Nia Vardalos also did Second City, so I knew her from there.

I knew I was good at sports, and I knew I loved acting and performing, so I really dove into that, and school always became secondary.

My hours get kinda backwards. Most of the time, we're basing out of one town, flying out, doing the show, then flying back. And it's a pace that no one would believe, really. Unless you've done it, you really can't understand what it is. And if you're not really experienced and know how to do it, you will fall.

I think every New York actor's dream is to do Shakespeare in the Park. Each show is so special and unique and diverse because of the elements that we're performing in. Every live show is truly a one-of-a-kind.

When I was young, we had these parties, and they'd make me sing in front of the family all the time.

They toured India, after calls for Maud to be banned from performing there; imperial values imagined that Maud's erotic dance would excite the 'rich native' to an unsafe degree

You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.

I would have been a visual artist. When I was in high school, that was one of the things... I had to make a decision what I was going to go to college for, and at the time, I also painted and sculpted. I got more attention for my performing, so I thought that was a better idea.

I would love to be an amazing singer. I take voice lessons. It's good to have as a dancer - to be able to sing and act, too, because for a Broadway show or musical, you have to be able to do everything.

The NBA is the best league in the world. It's no way you're going to be able to fill the void that the energy of performing before 20,000 people every night gives you. That's just impossible. So, I just try and move on from that and let it be a moment in time and leave it alone.

When you go to a college for acting, at least the college I went to, it's like everybody just singing and dancing and acting, and they all come together, and everyone's talking about head shots... It just turned me off. I was like, 'What is this? I don't understand this. People are singing in the hallways.'

When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.

I don't always get to do a lot of bad guys.

I've played killers, crazies, and really bad people.

My mother and my father always had me in ballet and dance, and I sang in a girl's group.

I was in one bar band from 1965 to '69, then I was in another one from 1970 to '79 - a 9-year bar band!

Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird.

My parents are both artists, they had a theater company in the Bay Area for a long time called Virago. I never really had a choice - when I was two years old, I was the baby in a play that they did, and it kind of just happened naturally.

I went to Long Beach State, started out as an actor.