Quotes About Performance

Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun.

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time

This isn't a game. We don't want mediocre employees who can keep the status quo. We want souls. We want to win. And you've spent most of your time here being mediocre.

I heard some interesting things about your performance up here." "I hear interesting things about your 'performance' all the time Doug, but you don't hear me making jokes about it.

I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud... that was pretty cool.

I think over any period of time, especially if you don't use leverage, it is difficult to continually beat the S&P 500.

When there's time for whistling, there's a lot of time on a show.

Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin together again for the first time.

I'm not good at watching stuff that I'm in at all. I should stop. I shouldn't watch something for the first time with a room full of people at Sundance. It's not a good idea.

It was hard to sing like how I wanted to because playing live I had to just be at the top of my lungs all the time, and it made me sound like I had a really bad cold or something.

For me music is so passionate. I have to give it my all every time I go onstage.

The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards.

Singers come and go, but if you're a good actor, you can last a long time.

I was so shy and so quiet, and the only time I had my own voice and I could really connect with people was when I was singing or on stage.

Artistic ambition is important. And it seems it would be a great time to do some theatre, like a new extreme.

I do have panic attacks every time I go on stage so I'm really not sure why I put myself through this.

I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.

As an actor, and especially as a young woman, there's so much pressure to look good all the time and it really detracts from what our job really is about, which is portraying a different person.

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

I'm not a very good actor, so I break character all the time.

Each time you go to the same track you know whether you're improving or whether you're not... it's not open to interpretation. It's measurable - unlike acting.

I heard that all the time. 'He makes it look too easy, he doesn't run hard.' It was always a slight on me.

You want to be as dominant as possible and you want to put some doubt in the hitters' heads. That's what I'm trying to do every single time I'm on the mound.

I did five episodes of Townies as Jenna Elfman's boyfriend. I was a guest star, but it was the first time I really got to play laughs in front of a sitcom audience.