Quotes About Performance

I have a love-hate relationship with performing.

An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

I just love the thrill of performing on stage. I believe that singing is something I was put here to do.

I love the French horn.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?

I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most.

I like playing characters with as many emotions as possible. I'd love to play a really crazy person - someone truly out of her mind.

Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.

There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

I only did karaoke once in my life. It was with Courtney Love and it was a total disaster. She pulled me on stage in front of 500 people at a wedding. I'd never done karaoke before.

I let the other guys handle the talking. I love playing.

I love watching a good horse do what he's bred to do - I guess that's what I like the most about it. And I love to see good athletes do what they're bred to do.

I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people.

I love the stage, I love the process of acting in theatre, but unfortunately, it doesn't pay the bills.

That's what I love about sketch comedy: a sketch is five minutes, then it goes dark, and there's the potential for something else.

I fell in love with the process of taking pictures, with wandering around finding things. To me it feels like a kind of performance. The picture is a document of that performance.

I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch.

When I play, I make love – it is the same thing.

I love to feel a racing car around me, to feel the way it holds me. I love to make it do all that it was built to do, and then a little bit more.

When I come into the theatre I get a sense of security. I love an audience. I love people, and I act because I like trying to give pleasure to people.

One of the things I love about acting is that it reveals a certain something about yourself, but it doesn't reveal your own personal story.

I'm on my feet and I'm doing what I love to do, and I'm in a profession, as a musician, where we can go on for as long as we can go on.