Quotes About Performance

It's hard 'coz you have got different time zones; you can't sleep and y'know, it's boring way for the show to happen, but you do off the stage. Y'know, onstage it's all better.

I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time

I had the hardest time not crying, the entire time that I was filming.

Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred.

You have to be ready to sing and perform at any time.

Put the right pitching mechanics together with good health, and there's nothing surprising about lasting a long time.

I can't miss a night's work and let my public down.

When it comes to playoff time, I pull the energy and the motivation.

Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)

I've thrown or broken a few clubs in my day. In fact, I guess at one time or another I probably held distance records for every club in the bag.

Broadway, I have to memorize everything. You get one time to do it right.

I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.

I think acting is an important profession, because acting can give you pleasure and can teach you at the same time, and that is a good thing.

Pianists don't argue too much generally because we have a hard enough time just getting things right. Arguing is for string players.

Every time fans turned on the television or watched the Dallas Cowboys, I wanted to give them the performance of a lifetime.

I like people to go away from a Queen show feeling fully entertained, having had a good time.

I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.

There are these mythic unicorn-y tales of method acting, but Marlon [Brando] wanted to have a good time.

I just didn't have time to deliver a Buffalo accent in a day, so I didn't even try it.

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

I tend to get very nervous before the first races of the year. It takes you a bit of time to get into the season.

At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active.

I feel like I should go out there and throw a shutout every time I pitch. If we score one [run] and I give up two, then I didn't do my job as far as I'm concerned.