Quotes About Performance

Life is graded on the curve. It's not how big you are, how strong you are, how smart you are. It's how good you are at the things that count relative to the people around you.

I have a life coach out with me on tour, a very nice guy from L.A. He just prepares me for each day.

I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.

Who I am on stage is just an amped up version of who I am in real life.

I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that.

I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie.

I've only been to one concert in my life.

If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.

I've been performing my whole life.

I thrive on being on the road, waking up in a different place every day and having my life revolve around music. When you walk out in front of 300,000 people and pull it off, it validates you.

When I'm doing theatre, I feel like my life's on hold. Even though you might go out for a coffee, or go and see a film, your brain is still there, pulling you back to it.

You have to have a very well-balanced life to be able to perform very well.

I'd never go onstage in my life without fully intending to do the best show you've ever seen.

In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.

Performances have a bit of a life and a time scale to themselves.

Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen.

When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little.

I just fight in my movies, never in real life.

I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

As soon as you put an actor to a person who is real, that person comes to life through another person.

Describing the person I am would best be through music. When I'm up on stage and I'm singing my heart out, I am always reminded of life's best things.

The Divorce, it's just like any performance that's given where I really just completely lost myself in that life.

Your private life, exposed, has a lingering effect on your mind and your game.