Quotes About Performance

I'm really loud, and I'm really amazing, and really talented. And really humble.

If I've gotten to a point where people want to see something because I'm in it, I'm grateful and humbled. But having an awareness of that doesn't help me do what I need to do, I think.

It's humbling when people sing back to you!

We record Dream Theater shows and I'll sit on the bus and listen to my playing - what worked, what didn't. A lot of times it's embarrassing and humbling, but that's what you have to do to get better.

As a singer, if I'm in a room that is too cold, I kind of freak out, so I actually like the humidity, and I love the heat.

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish.

Commercial auditions can be pretty humiliating.

Singing in a restaurant is very demeaning and humiliating but you learn from it, because people aren't there for a show, they're there to eat.

'Man Down' is not a serious study of the human condition: it is a balls-out attempt at making people laugh. So nobody in the show can afford to cling on to any vanity, because we're always going to push the humiliation levels.

The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it will teach you humility if nothing else.

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

In all pomposity and humility, I just wanted to show what I could do as an actor, and I jumped when 'Lootera' came my way.

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring. 'Serious acting' is the kind of acting that I don't ever respond to.

I find any sort of acting that doesn't have any humor in it is mind-numbingly boring.

I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

Have I been an entertainer, a provocateur and a humorist? Absolutely.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

I love to play humorous moments in dramatic shows. That's always the most fun: to keep the logic of the character in a show that's basically action-adventure and then play the comedy moments.

I consider myself a bit of a comedian. I write a lot of humorous songs.

I'm not funny ha-ha, but I look for real humour in just about everything I've ever played.

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

Someone enjoys your batting, and someone, your humour. Since I'm not batting any longer, I can at least say some words, so people enjoy and give me compliments, too.

I think any kind of comic sequence is as easy and as difficult as it is written. So, if it is written well, then it becomes easy. Sometimes you find it difficult because the humour is not coming out.