Quotes About Performance

My first audition ever was for 'Bye Bye Birdie' in fifth grade.

I mean, I did a play when I was in eighth grade, but who hasn't?

I've been playing live since I was in sixth grade.

You've seen players at Everton who have been built up but haven't made the grade.

I kind of always did get good grades.

I don't think anyone can accept us being 51st in the country dealing with fourth-grade math scores and reading scores in the fourth and sixth grades that are close to the bottom. That's not acceptable. It's not acceptable to the people of Alabama.

Being an actor is like being a student, and I plan to get top grades.

I never had good grades until I dropped out of religion. And then suddenly, my grades went up.

I was a class clown, never got good grades.

When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.

For the longest time, I was very conscious of the camera while doing a scene. It wouldn't seem natural. But gradually, I've become more comfortable.

I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well.

I learned in America that Americans are into results. Americans don't care where you came from, what your family did, what school you graduated from. They care about if you can deliver the results. That's what makes America the country it is.

Since I graduated college, all I have ever done for a living was acting.

In college, I didn't perform so much, but when I graduated is when I discovered Second City. Then I realized, 'Oh, there are people who can focus on comedy and especially improvisational comedy and make a career out of it.'

The only thing that matters with my kids are them graduating and playing well, and I try to do my dangedest to get them to play well.

I am learning the grammar of acting on the sets. And I am happy that way.

Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll band. I would say that at least 80 percent of my energy was involved with whatever band I was involved in.

I've been to the Grammy's several times for my past nominations and it has always a fun experience.

One of the first country artists I got to work with was Carrie Underwood at the Grammy Awards.

Every year, they ask me to play the Grammys.

I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.

Not many people are able to say that they had in their professional career the chance to perform in two bands that won Grammys and were multiplatinum bands.

I'll watch the Grammys and think, 'You hardly even see people playing guitar,' and it freaks me out.