Quotes About Performance

My CD, my first release, was at the Comedy Works in Denver, one of the best clubs in the country.

Due to the Internet, we don't perform new songs until a release. Don't get me wrong, I love new technology, but in the case of a new song we would like the original recording and production to be heard first.

There is something about being on stage that's a release for me. It gets my mental energy out.

I feel like I've always had a quick release.

I've got a good, quick release.

If I hadn't done 'Shadowlands,' which was a sort of emotional release for me as a person as well as an actor, it might have been less easy to have done 'George III.'

I hope I am offered good roles and all my releases are hits.

Theatre especially in Hindi is not enough to help an artiste in earning a livelihood.

The audience had a huge expectation from me in Bengal, and now in Hindi also people have started expecting from me because they know I am a senior actor from Bengal.

The main advantage Sridevi and I had was that we acted in films which were South remakes. What we had done in the South, we did the same in Hindi.

My Hindi remakes are better than my originals except sometimes, the Malayalam actors perform better.

'Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway.

Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

Glam rock always has a story to tell and has that powerful voice with a little hint of libretto.

You can reveal yourself on stage in a way that you can't on TV. If you drop a character on TV, it's death. Each character has to be ruthlessly, faultlessly played. But live, you can hint at what's going on behind. You can let the audience in a bit and go off the script.

I don't believe I've ever played a hip dude. I don't think I would have the wherewithal to do that.

I have done big festivals all over Europe with hip hops acts and everything else.

Sometimes when I think you get fatigued, a little extra inflammation in the back and hip, it's harder to move fast and you lose a little bit of bat speed.

As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.

I still gotta reacquaint myself with the hip-hop audience.

I know what I'm good at, and if I'm asked to do something I'm not - like hip-hop dancing - I get self-conscious.

I did ballet, jazz, and all that, but I think hip-hop is really where I learned rhythm and groove, which has helped me in music.

This idea that my work is about hip-hop is a little reductive. What I'm interested in is the performance of masculinity, the performance of ethnicity, and how they intermingle across cultures.

I am taking belly dancing now. My hips are double-jointed, so I can do it really easily.