Quotes About Performance

Aaron Gordon, obviously, is a great runner.

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

I'm from the gospel world. I grew up playing in church.

My favorite singer is Canton Jones, a gospel hip-hop artist - when I'm on the bus going to a game, I listen to him in my own little world, singing and dancing; he gets me ready to play every time.

Hot Gossip were revolutionary in some of the dance they did in the 1970s.

You can't think; you just gotta do things.

To be a comedian, you gotta jokesmith, there's no way around it.

That's the nature of basketball. You gotta go out there and compete.

My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

You gotta have a gimmick.

I always say, you gotta play a dive bar like you play an arena, and you play an arena like you play a dive bar.

I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!

You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.

Of course, if you're gonna make movies, you gotta make movies, and I'm not gonna say no to a good role.

I was the lead singer in a lot of the bands I was in. You have to be comfortable. You gotta get up there and sell the song. You have to get up there and sell the lyric. You gotta be able to feel it.

When you're on stage, you gotta do it. People pay to see you, and they deserve to be entertained, and you should go out there and really give it your best shot. And that's quite a challenge.

I don't want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want.

If I write a song, I'm gonna end up singing it. If I sing it, I gotta dance to it.

I gotta win games. Because if we lose games, and I score a lot, they going to say I'm scorin' too much.

So many times, I watch games and think, 'Man, why is that guy trying to score like that? He can't do it.' But he's been told his whole life, 'You have to go get 40 if you want to be one of the top dogs.' It's my goal to build a lane where you can be a top dog, and you don't gotta go get that 40. You can go get four and still be a top dog.

You can have the best riff in the world, but if the drums behind it just ain't vibing it, it's not gonna be the greatest riff, right? So you've gotta have someone there that can really bring that to life.

Both my kids like Adele, and I gotta say, the girl can sing.

Performing 60,000 people, that's easy. The energy's already there. They're already doing most of the work. All you gotta do is not forget the words - and feed them energy, too.