Quotes About Performance

What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.

We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.

I will have no problem coming to practice on time. The locker room is great, but we have to prove ourselves on the court.

I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.

There is no 'perfect' in music. If I ever came off the stage and felt it could not be better, it would then be time to quit.

I do not think the crowd affected us, but the position of being in a big time game may well have affected us.

A lot of jazz is like that; it sells over a period of time.

The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.

My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road.

That didn't really matter, how you judge how successful you are is basically when you turn up to do a gig and people come and have a good time.

I'll play for a couple of hours and then before you know it, it's time to go on stage. It takes away any nervousness and anxiety I might have about the big crowd out there.

People recognize me all the time now, and there's lots of autograph hunting and smiling. But then I get to play gigs, which are amazing. It's a good job.

I loved musicals. I loved being in the school play and being lucky enough to get parts in the school play. But they always took place in some other time and place.

I think that's part of the fun of being an actor - you get to not be normal all of the time.

College was a great time. I partied there, but I also learned how to act.

I want people to have a good time. Its boring only to hear singer/songwriters spilling their guts.

Going on tour, you don't have a lot of time to mull things over. You're just kind of, "Another beer, another show, another song."

I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.

When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.

An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short.

Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.

It may have lost its special-ness forever and the clubs might not being doing well but I think standup is in the best shape it has been in a long time.

And much as I enjoy writing and creating stuff, I don't enjoy it so much that I am willing to give up any time that could otherwise be spent performing.

All I know is that when I come to the ballpark I'm going to be on time and give 100 percent. I know that I have to do that to keep my job.