Quotes About Performance

Every time I improvise I'm aware that I could be ruining what it is that we're doing and we'll just have to do it again.

I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great.

Closed mouths don't get fed, and I'm gonna eat every time I get on the court.

At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net.

Any time anyone fires bullets in an action movie that don't hit the target it immediately undermines the movie.

The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.

Every time I do a gig, my goal is getting new fans.

Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.

By the time I got to the Fox studio for my first major film, I knew how to hit a mark. I knew how to memorize lines. I knew how to pay attention.

I like comedy. I would love to do comedy for a long time.

I've been doing music for a pretty long time, since I was a kid, and I must have been around 10 years old when I started playing shows with my siblings.

I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time.

Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor.

My kids act all the time and its exactly what I used to do.

I want to be the guy that can go out there and go at least seven, eight innings every time out.

I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.

You're never really playing yourself. You're always acting. It's an illusion that you're really playing yourself. The only time I'm playing myself is when I'm at home!

The TV show. Any time you're playing, this is the gift, you get to play someone else. You get to be someone who you're not.

Comedians don't get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can't really speak about the Oscar-worthiness of my own performance.

Unfortunately, at this moment in time, Robbie Keane can't hit a barn door for us.

The truly incredible thing is were realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without being high and still have a fantastic time.

I will always play "Stand Back" anyway. And Prince will always he standing behind me every time I do.

Every time I'm not on a project, I'm writing or in the studio or doing gigs DJing.

I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.