Quotes About Performance

If I could have my kids be great when the lights are on, whatever the moment is, to be accountable and then fix it, they're going to be fine.

I mean, if I could score 40 every game, then I would score 40 every game. But I think I cannot score 40 every game, so I'm gonna pass a little bit, too.

I'd definitely use a 48-inch driver if I could control it.

I was never a sit-in-the-audience-type person. Even as a little kid, when I saw a band performing at a restaurant, I would ask them if I could sing a song.

When I was younger and I did West End shows like 'Les Mis,' 'Mary Poppins' and 'Chitty,' I was blissfully ignorant - it was amazing to be a part of, but I didn't realise the scale of it all and how important a role it would play in my life when I grew up. It was just a fun thing I'd do every couple of days.

It is an attention-getter. I mean, it's hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.

When you have fans who are hassling you the entire game and you ignore them, they respect you because their job is to try and distract you. And if they don't distract you, that means you're focused on doing your job. And who knows, by the end, sometimes you even win them over.

The business cannot ignore what customers are saying when the message is clear: We're not on our game.

Box office does matter. One cannot ignore it.

We can't figure out why any time we play in the East, the critics either ignore us or write a pretty bad review of the show.

People who've only seen me perform might assume that I'm confident and that being ignored wouldn't bother me - but it does.

I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there.

It's no use ignoring looks or charm if you're going into the theatre.

We can't play if we are ill or not completely fit.

Carbondale, Ill. is where I went to college, and it's where I first started putting on shows.

If I have to do a speech, if there's no way I can get out of it, or if it's something I really should do, I won't sleep the night before. I'll feel ill the entire day leading up to it. I won't be able to eat if it's after a dinner, which makes things even worse.

I don't think we should put a number on how long you should coach or how old you should be. It should be illegal. Go as long as you can do a good job. It shouldn't be an age thing.

I could have played Dot as a very dreary woman with a list of illnesses, but I played her with an edge, so it was funny.

I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.

I like creating the illusion that suddenly I've just done five things at once.

An illusion has been created that Gujarat is the top performing state in the country in all facets. But that is not true.

I'm an actor. I hate to blow everyone's illusions.