Quotes About Performance

I think it's important to maintain this momentum and especially when you are representing your country, you have a lot of pressure of people around you and you have to be at your best behaviour.

It's the best feeling, representing your country, and I always want to perform and give 100% for the team.

There is always a pressure if you play every game and especially when you are representing your country.

At the end of the day, you're representing a team, you're representing a city, you got to go out there and play.

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

I guess I'm just good at playing repressed individuals. I'm lucky because those are often the roles that catch people's eyes.

I've played an awful lot of repressed people.

Sometimes in the past when I was going to perform a piece again I would listen to old recordings and try to reproduce the material. This time I realized that carrying around old information, trying to get everything in, and still be in the moment just doesn't work.

I don't like the idea of having to reproduce a recorded song live that I sing. I have enough to do on stage. I'm really busy up there, and I'm really busy with everything I have to do for every show. Add having to worry about my voice and singing lead on a song or two, that's not something I necessarily want to do.

I'm not a singer, so I reproduce a little bit what I see on television and what I listen to on the radio. I don't have self-control, really, so I didn't want to sing like Mariah Carey.

Playing live is great, but it's not a creative thing, really. It's a reproductive thing.

This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.

So far, Senate Republicans are good at getting Facebook likes and town halls and not much else. Do something.

It's 'The Hunger Games.' My character needs to look hungry. A little bit.

When you do comedy shows, you usually don't finish until about 11 P.M. Then you have this adrenaline dump, and you get hungry.

I am a hungry actor, and I want to do good films.

Ring Of Honor has always been about young, hungry talent, and going out there and leaving it all in the ring.

When I used to play, the manager would tell us that you are as good as your last performance. That made all the players more hungry to finish strong.

Pentatonix are amazing, and meeting Hunter Hayes was awesome.

Eric Hunter is the type of character I've always dreamed of playing.

I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.

I was always in so much of a hurry when I was playing a backup role - just doing everything.

My heart's in stage. Making 'Quadrophenia' was exciting because we were riding around on scooters with no crash helmets. But 'hurry up and wait' is the anthem of films. Everybody wants you ready, and then you sit doing nothing.

One thing that's great about being a character actor is that a movie doesn't rest on your shoulders. If it bombs, it won't hurt my career.