Quotes About Performance

Directing remains very psychological, and it takes a lot of time and reflection. When you're an actor, it takes less time, and you can express yourself physically.

The simplest way to do something cool is the cross-turn. Like in the '80s - Michael Jackson did it. You jump and cross your legs together at the same time, and then spin out of it. That's it.

I was for a short time on the baseball team as shortstop, where I was not so good.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.

My parents were in the studio when we cut 'Let Me Try' and every time I sang it they started crying, ... I finally had to ask them to leave because I couldn't sing it while they were crying.

Every time I went on the radio, I would take the crummiest radio station, the station that was like a toilet bowl. I would go on there and build up the ratings, so you couldn't do any worse.

As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

It's a buzz every time you perform under pressure.

Most of the time when you do a job, a play or a film, you're wondering, "Will there be an audience?"

If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.

It's every actor's dream to be seen on the big screen. Having said that, it's also imperative to better yourself as an actor all the time. In that, all mediums become important in their own ways.

I think that a sense of humor of an actor comes through most of the time. Maybe some actors have less than others, and I have it, I think. It's my nature.

I love playing my music and I love sharing the music with people. But at the same time, it is pretty taxing.

Coming from theater, and having been to acting school, and done little, small Australian independent movies, a lot of the time, it's always about character.

I'm from Florida, so any time I get invited to come to Florida and play a show, I'm definitely always up for that.

If I started at 13, by the time I was 14 I was already good enough to play in front of people. I started off playing drums when I was 5, so playing in front of people didn't matter - not a problem.

Focus on the competition to diminish the time dedicated to internal politics.

Every time I do a movie, especially an animated movie, I just seem to scream and shout and hyperventilate for money.

I do really enjoy having a crowd of people out to see me. They really motivate me. I feel really lucky they've come down so I give it what I have got every time.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.

It's the only time that I'm ever nervous on stage, is when we're doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can't fix it.

'She's Country' obviously changed a lot of things for us and pretty much, I think, doubled our crowd size in just a few months time.