Quotes About Performance

When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.

From the time I started playing solo drums, doing clinics and stuff, you know I think one of the largest selling clinics I ever did was in Chicago.

I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!

I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.

I have been fortunate to have my game peak at the right times.

Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy.

At the upcoming Grammy Awards, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony will perform together as the first time, as man and wife. Hopefully music.

The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage that Gilda Radner had walked on. It was sacred ground.

The reason we are at the ballpark is to win that day's game, and we don't need to be concerned with anything else during the time we are in uniform. It makes things a lot simpler, a lot easier.

?s long as I've got an audience out there to play for, I'm going to continue to play. I have at least enough people that I can go out on the road for 10, 11 weeks at a time.

I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like a better writer and director than you really are.

It's easy when you have receivers that are open all the time and an offensive line that never lets anyone touch you. It makes it fun to play.

Luckily for his audiences, Bennett doesn't tire of singing I Left My Heart. ... that song made me a world citizen. And when I do it, it always feels like the first time.

Enough of talking: It is time now to do.

It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.

By the time I was 9, I was frequently asked to play exhibitions at grand openings, fund-raisers for charities, and other special events.

I've just taken the decision that I'm going to now go full time back into the theater.

For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts, it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cos I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.

If I had my choice, I'd pick a song that tells a story every time. There is a great deal of pleasure in doing the vocal on a number that you can put feeling into.

The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.

People think for Shakespeare you have to have a big English accent, but it's not true. He designed it so it can be performed in any accent in any time period.

We actually talked about Adam Sandler during the creation of 'Trolls,' because he does know how to time jokes.