Quotes About Performance

Rehearsals are great because without them, you feel like you're being thrown into a lion's den. But being on set, shooting your scenes that you've been preparing for months - that's a great feeling.

How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.

In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally.

When a dramatic actor does a funny film, people are like, 'Wonderful! I didn't know he was funny!' But when it flips, people can get really thrown by it.

I love to get thrown around, and the reality about it. I hate watching a movie, knowing the actors are faking it.

My technique is such that even if I turn my back on the throw, I understand what I have thrown and I start celebrating.

I have to be able to make plays when the ball is thrown to my side.

Actually, because I'm so small, when I strike an open A chord I get physically thrown to the left, and when I play an open G chord I go right. That's how hard I play, and that's how a lot of my stage act has come about. I just go where the guitar takes me.

I've thrown a lot of curls over the years.

Being asked to carry a major show with the restrictions that are thrown on you is very limiting. I'd rather hit it hard, do it right, and walk away.

I'm aware that if the ball is thrown in my direction, I'm expected to catch it because the media is going to be on my back.

With film sometimes you're thrown in there and you literally hit the ground running, taking your best shot and just leave it up to the editing.

I found at an early age the times when I learned the most about myself was when I got thrown out there on a stage in front of a microphone when you didn't really want to be out there, where you're kind of afraid.

When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

In the past I've thrown my wicket away on certain occasions.

My shows are always a mix of songs from all my albums with some rocking covers thrown in for fun.

But I also know in standup, there's nowhere to hide. You get on stage and you deliver, or you are eviscerated and you are thrown into a pile of bodies at the bottom of a mountain.

I've had every kind of humiliation, from playing in Gala Bingo halls to doing a PA in a Glaswegian nightclub and having cans of lager thrown at me.

I never thought I'd go on a show like 'The X Factor,' simply because I didn't have enough confidence to do something like standing on a stage to have opinions thrown at me.

I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.

Stars are like thoroughbreds. Yes, it's a little more dangerous with them. They are more temperamental. You have to be careful because you can be thrown. But when they do what they do best - whatever it is that's made them a star - it's really exciting.

For me, portraying a character is not about liking or disliking it; it's about meeting a challenge that's thrown at you.

I have the comedian's fear of bottles flying. I've never been bottled off, but I have had things thrown at me. Bag of crisps. And there's still a part of me, when I sit in an audience, that thinks people are going to start heckling the play.

One thing that I struggled with was not corpsing when you're being thrown stuff that's absolutely hilarious by the other actors.