Quotes About Performance

It's fun to play characters in songs. I can just cheat a little bit... be this person for just a small amount of time and just help vent that idea.

By the time I was five, I was a little diva.

I've always really liked theater. It fascinated me. You can create a reality and get people involved in that reality. It takes place in real time.

You can spend your time on stage pleasing the heckler in the back, or you can devote it to the audience that came to hear you perform.

Musicians are in-season all the time.

A lot of acting is private time.

When I get in there, everything gets blocked out. I just focus on the person in the cage with me. That's all my brain has room for at the time.

Every time a puck gets past me and I look back into the net, I say, 'uh-oh.'

I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.

I want to figure out how I can make the most important statement with the least amount of information, so I don't run out of ideas by the time I get to my second or third chorus.

I don't wait till stage to use my sexuality. My zipper's down right now. I mean, I use it all the time.

With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.

All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage.

I don't like to sound egotistical, but every time I stepped up to the plate with a bat in my hands, I couldn't help but feel sorry for the pitcher.

Seriously. Thank you all. In that ring w/all of u watching was THE best place for me for a very long time. Thx for the memories.

Benchmark your performance against your best competitors. Think how you can beat them next time.

I don't really want to go into my problems with the team at the time except to say that no one's ever had to pay me to play basketball.

You have to discipline yourself and not carry the character with you. You need to switch it off and take time to re-energize.

I'm a comedian, and I like to work on my live show, and if I'm doing television, I don't have time to work on my live show, and I can become a lame comic, and that sucks.

Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.

I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don't have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max.

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too. (When asked if he noticed how slowly Earl Campbell got up after each play.)

What you're trying to do as an actor is somehow trick yourself into believing that these words have never been said, and so you've got to discover them for the first time.

Many of the shows I danced in don't exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were in the theater for that single moment in time. And nothing can replace that.