Quotes About Performance

One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.

It is fun to do the one-off guest stars on stuff.

That's my dream - to play Coachella... not as a guest but as me!

Sometimes you can just have a dialogue with an actor beforehand and shape the performance then, but other actors need more guidance on the set.

If I'm asked which is my favourite character to play, I'll definitely say Rosy from 'Guide' because I feel she is very real.

When I'm singing, that's all me. That's from the bottom of my heart - it's everything I've worked for. When you're on stage, there are no guidelines. No one's telling me what to do!

It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.

I've always worked toward, and felt comfortable with, you know, pausing and guiding the audience on a longer bit.

I think I'm great. I mean, I might as well come out and say it. Like most people, I have an ego and I'm in show business, so you have to have kind of a healthy, conflagrated ego to a degree. On the other hand, I'm consumed, like a lot of people, with self-doubt and loathing and guilt.

I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.

I've always thought that the act of playing the guitar was the act of trying to make a point of playing the guitar.

It's actually not that hard to play guitar in a rock band.

I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!

Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect!

I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.

Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music.

I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.

Generally, I think of myself as a guitar player, but when I do find the right song to sing lead on, I try to do my best.

If somebody needed a guitar player for a tour and I was free and it was the right situation, I'd do it and it would be good fun. There would be much less pressure if I just had to stand there and play leads.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm just a guitar player, and my job is to go out there and play and entertain and do my thing.

I'm the guitar player in Belle & Sebastian.

I don't really make a distinction because when I'm acting, I feel like an actor, and when I DJ, I feel like a DJ, and when I play the guitar, I feel like a guitar player. I don't know which I prefer. I think I just like to perform, in some way or another.