Quotes About Performance

I started studying acting to become a better model. But, in the course of doing so, I found myself feeling the same thrill and enthusiasm that I felt the first time I came to walk on the runway.

There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop.

Yes, I mean, There's nothing like it. There is an added sense of pressure because of that, but there's also nothing like the thrill you get being in the same space with that audience right there and then. And when you do it, it's over.

I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.

The benefit is competition, the thrill of playing in the Olympics, being an Olympian, playing against the best.

I can't tell you the thrill and joy of when I was cast in my first Broadway show. Granted, it was 'Starlight Express' and it was exhausting, but it was my first time on Broadway, and there was nothing like it.

For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.

Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be.

The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.

It was a thrill for me to work with Pete Fountain.

Once you're on, nobody can say, 'Cut it.' You're out there on your own, and there's always that thrill of a real live audience.

I never want to give up stand-up. Because I still get a thrill out of it.

The thrill of standing on the stage and hearing the crowd, it's the greatest feeling in the world. It's a blessed feeling.

When you have the thrill and the pleasure to do something that means so much, you'll do whatever you've gotta do to get to that next gig and play that next song.

Being an actor, I never think I'm going to get the part. It's always a thrill when things go the way you hope they will.

Theatre gives you an altogether different kind of thrill which every actor who wants to grow must try.

I have wrestled in front of 80,000 people at Wembley Stadium, and that is a pretty big thrill.

Actors always have things that they're not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.

I always wanted to thrill people with my dancing - just as how K-pop dancing thrilled me.

Women aren't driven by or thrilled by outperforming the market. They're much more excited about, 'Can I meet my goal?'

I get bored at the theatre a lot because I notice that there's not always a connection between the actors. They may be technically proficient, but they're not surprising each other. I'm thrilled by actors who make choices that are surprising.

I am thrilled beyond words that The Academy has recognized my performance in Steve McQueen's '12 Years a Slave,' and I am deeply proud to be in the company of my fellow nominees.

Once I found acting and found that I could get away with it and make a living out of it, I was thrilled.

I was thrilled as a kid to point out my sister as she danced and sang on the stage, and she was pretty good artistically. She was a great inspiration to me. She was the one who sort of led me into show business.