Quotes About Performance

When people feel that something really special is happening on the stage, things change.

I would rather do a play because it's instantaneous. You go on the stage, and you know whether it's happening or not. Somebody asked me 'What is acting?' And I said, 'Acting is listening.' And if you ain't listening, nobody's listening.

When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room.

I keep doing stand-up because the world needs laughter - there's always something happening in the country and in the world. That's why I wanted to become an entertainer: to help people forget about their problems for a little while.

Theatricality - that's where you get catharsis. The Greeks went to see drama because they felt like this wasn't happening to them.

When I go in front of an audience, I'll admit I sometimes have a certain amount of fear in me, because maybe the people are not going to accept what I'm doing today. That's bad for any artist, especially if what you're doing is not in line with what's happening today.

It happens in football. You have bad days.

The stat is the score. And when you don't win that score, nothing good happens.

Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting.

At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.

I am extremely passionate about what I do, and the happiest I am is when I'm on set working.

I'm an artiste... I dance, I act, and I do a lot of things that's got to do with arts, and that's my space. I feel happiest in that space.

I wish I could play an actress of the '50s. It will be the happiest thing for me to do.

Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.

If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around.

I'm happiest when in front of the camera, and I didn't know it until I got up there.

I've always felt happiest entertaining.

I'm sure like everyone else I'm not always the happiest if I don't do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

I am an actor, I get really happy when people find me good looking but I am the happiest when people comment on the work I did.

As far as I am getting good roles I am the happiest person.

I come back to the theatre happily knowing that while it won't make me rich, it will provide me with fun.

I would happily do any Malayalam or Bengali film, if the script is good and I get a good challenge as an actor.

I've always been scared to do a play. I don't know why, because doing 'Happy Days' was like a play with three cameras.

People liked my performances in 'Kill Dill' and 'Happy Ending,' but I was hardly there in them.