Quotes About Performing

I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol.

If we don't take a prideful stance about our opinions, then we are at liberty to change them. How often have we gotten stuck in performing something we really didn't want to do, because we had foolishly taken a prideful stance on an opinion! Very often we would like to have changed our mind or the direction in which we were going, but we got ourselves boxed in by having taken a prideful position.

As a performing artiste, we always need love and support from family.

Throughout my life I have seen, without one exception, narrow-shouldered men performing innumerable idiotic acts, brutalizing their fellows, and corrupting souls by every means. They call the motive for their actions: fame.

I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.

You have to be gifted to begin with, of course, but what follows is a process that takes a very long time. You train, you listen, you travel, you follow artistes... all of it goes into making you who you are as a performing artiste.

Actually, I would love to make a music video. Maybe it would finally put to rest those persistent rumours that have followed me throughout my career - particularly when I was on camera performing - that I had died.

I'm going to be writing and directing my own videos, and performing in them too, and I'm super-excited about it.

Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play.

I love just being an actor. I love writing, but I'm not a writer. I have no aspirations to direct.

I used to be a wonderful auditioner. When I was living in New York, I'd audition every day. And I like to audition. But then it got to a point where I didn't like it anymore.

I hate auditions.

I sure don't miss going out on auditions!

I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.

I did three years training for stage in drama school.

Everyone at drama school called me Musical Boy.

It wasn't until I got involved in 'Doctor Who' that I started doing dramas on television.

I've been doing dramas for a long time.

The entertainment thing - you're there to entertain, it's not about you - I get that, but for a while I lost my opinion.

I used to do skits for my mom... and I was always entertaining as a kid.