Quotes About Performance

It's frustrating sometimes for actors because you slam it out and you have a great time, you think it's funny, and then for whatever reason the movie doesn't come together.

I think I realized it was an art form at the beginning, but it took me a really long time before I was able to view what I was performing myself as an art form.

This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.

In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.

I think the first time I was on The David Letterman Show, he didn't quite know what to expect. I think people generally are just a little afraid.

I have played a few lay saints in my time.

For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.

Rembrandt was way ahead of his time. It's as if he was painting an amateur theatrical, or a professional theatrical, in his studio. It's a kind of performance.

The only way to get better at stand-up is to do loads of gigs, and I don't know. I spread myself pretty thin to get the stage time. I'd love to do more, really.

The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.

If it takes 30 days of rehearsal, you better ace all 30 of those days. When it's game time, you're ready to play ball.

If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.

Any time I see anything moving onstage, I'm cautious about it.

In television, there's no time. You can't walk around and get into the mood. Nobody is going to wait for you. They're like, "Let's go!," and I'm like, "Wait, I haven't gotten in the mood!"

The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

People wanted to see Rey Mysterio and PsIcosis in a match, and we had such a great chemistry. I don't think there was anyone at that time who could match what we were bringing to the table.

I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.

Every time I walk out onto the field, I feel that I can be the best one in the game and that I can be a superstar.

Don't change the channel when Rohit Sharma walks out to bat, because by the time you change it back, he'd be long gone!!

But on stage you're able to just take the character from one point to the end and it's a fluid, organic piece. It's about being completely present all the time, right there in the moment.

I just always loved to perform and I was lucky enough to be in front of the right people at the right time!

That's the first time I've been involved in such a big way as a voice actor and this script [Voltron] is very matter of factly.

We saw The Man From La Mancha, and I remember there was a scene where the woman's skirt fell off, and I got embarrassed and excited at the same time.