Quotes About Performance

When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.

Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.

Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time

If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'

Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.

My job is to play well offensively and help my team score points. So I feel very responsible every time we lose a game.

All sports are time control demonstrations.

People come up to me as I leave the stage after a performance and tell me tey saw my mother onstage with me every time I sing. I keep a sense of humor about it.

I know really, really famous people who are terrified every time they walk on to a stage.

Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

My first full year of touring, I did 300 days on the road. That was not including the travel time or publicity or anything else - that was just dates. I was home probably less than 50 days that year.

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

I've always liked using flutes and clarinets. Any time I can use those, I'm really happy.

Most of the time, my favorite drama has comedy in it as well. I think most good dramas have comedy in there. And all of the dramatic actors I look up to are also very funny.

I remember the first time I saw a Broadway show and how excited I was. That really fuels me and for some, it's the first time they have seen Aladdin.

Every time I wrote a sketch that was in my voice, Ferrell would just do it better.

As an actor, often you're stuck with these scenes in which a great period of time is in between them - for example, if you do a biopic, it might be a year, it might be a decade, you never know.

Every time I hit the stage I try to take something from it. There are a lot of shows and opportunities to be seen like that. I like to just take all of them and allow them to help me build.

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.

You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.

I consider myself a line drive hitter with power. I just try to put my best swing on the ball every time.

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

If the same phrase in the same place created the right effect, I was perfectly prepared to use it every time. I wasn't worried that I wasn't improvising.