Quotes About Performance

It's weird, not to sound too actor but I think that any time you do a performance, you kind of take a little piece of that character, cause it's a part of you you're using.

There was a period of time when I thought I had to be Alice Cooper all the time.

The pressure is hard. You get - the world is only watching every four years, and I think lots of people feel like they have to win in that time frame.

It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

Obviously, the competitor in you, you want to be in the top three every time in the pool.

My performance has improved dramatically from yoga and meditation. No athlete ever dominated by sticking to one sport all the time.

You can really get into it - especially in the movies, where you really have the time to get into your character and play her well.

I've definitely done my share of tripping over monitors, etc. but nothing could compare to the time when I totally forgot the beginning of a song that I was starting on stage.

When you're playing Shakespeare, it forces you to think and feel and speak all at the same time, which really is what acting is. It expands your imagination and expands your size of thinking.

The real drag is trying to fly from country to country, day of show, with all your gear. You get hassled all the time. It's hard trying to keep it together.

I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time.

But that's not what an actor does. An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.

I can't watch iceskating because the whole time I think they're going to fall! I get so uncomfortable.

As soon as you get off stage, that's the most dangerous time for a singer to kiss people because your vocal chords are receptive to any kind of germ.

It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat.

I feel like I'm always being challenged by my voice acting roles, for multiple different reasons. I still get nervous every time I book a gig.

The stage is not for me to practice. I'm not that artist. You practice at home and when you get on stage, it's time for a conversation.

We live in a time where improv is king and people love improv, and I think there's a time and a place for that and people who are really good at structuring improv.

I just sing the song and I sing it with conviction, meaning and I get into the mood of every song I do no matter how much time I have in between.

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

A singer has got a different attitude, they're they're so whacked out they don't know what they're doing half the time. Singers, they don't, they're spoiled too.

It's very hard to play a hyperactive character all the time, I try my best, but I end up collapsing at the end of the day.

Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.

Being on set is quite difficult, because it's so big and you've got to try and relax, which isn't easy when you know you're in a massive film. I was terrified for quite a long time.