Quotes About Performance

Be a clown , be a clown, All the world loves a clown. Act the fool , play the calf, And you'll always have the last laugh .

But duets are a lot of fun, I'd love to do another one

I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

I do consider myself a clown and a court jester, and I do love to make people laugh, whether they're laughing with me or at me.

I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.

The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.

I love hitting the stage and I don't think I could trade that for sitting in the basement making beats.

I've been in love with audiences all my life, and I've tried to please. I hope I did.

What I love about doing my concerts is always feeding off the fans and their energy.

I love Alfa Romeos and that [Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio] was tremendous.

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

It doesn't matter where I stand; whether at the front or at the back, in the middle or at the side. As long as I can get on stage and do what I love, that's enough for me.

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life.

I love to rock 'n roll. But my finest suit, of all the things I do, is as a songwriter.

I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.

There's something about playing every night, it becomes easy and it becomes fun. I love being up there and playing for different crowds every night.

You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing.

With every part you act, there must be a little of yourself in it. If there isn't, it's not acting. It's lying.

I don't think of myself as being a celebrity, it's too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it's getting worse. I can't tell whether my work is good or not.

It's very much like opera singers. They do the same thing. The first thing in the morning and the last thing at night, the thing they think about is their voice and how to take care of it.

Actors," he says, "should only be superficial on the surface.