Quotes About Performance

It's the stupidest thing of all time, going on tour. It deteriorates the soul, but it's fun.

Any tightrope walker can walk in a straight line and hold a cane at the same time. It's the balancing on the rope at those dizzying heights that they have to practise

The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist.

A lot of the time in music you get to see the place you play, or around the place you play, but that's it.

As an actor, sometimes you feel a pressure to change yourself from time to time.

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

The minute you feel you have given a faultless performance is the time to get out.

When you sing live, you cannot expect any artist, except for the amazing Beyonce or GaGa, to get it right every time.

I've been playing these schoolgirl roles in all my movies. Every time I went to the set, it felt like I was going to school.

I've got a fastball, change-up, forkball, curve, slider, knuckle-slider, knuckle-curve, I had about seven pitches I could have used at any time.

Any time you're lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it's a good thing.

I think it's really great to be able to stick with a character for a long period of time. It's not like you have one shot, and that's it.

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I'd always been in that world to some extent.

There is of course a dark side to panto because there are always baddies and you can't have a baddie without a dark side. But most of the time the baddies become good.

The game [football] has moved on a lot but still, ask most players and they will tell you that pre-season isn't their favourite time of the year.

I always wear my black watch on my left wrist so I know I'm on stage on time.

There's nothing like theater. It's really amazing. But it does take up all of your time. I would like to get into more film, just because I find it super fascinating.

On stage I am the actor, director and the bouncer all at the same time. Fear does not exist in this dojo does it? No Sensi! Sorry when I get excited I have to toss in some Karate Kid quotes.

No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.

I think being on a film set for such a long time made me a technical actor without realizing it.

If I'm working, I'm not D.J.'ing. And if I'm not working, I'm D.J.'ing all the time.

Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around, there's show tunes and fart noises.

It's more fun when you shoot well and when you have a good score, but that's not a prerequisite to me for having a good time.