Quotes About Performance

Dramatic art in her opinion is knowing how to fill a sweater.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can't physically entertain any longer. It's what I was born to do, and I love this profession.

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

I'm in the acting business. That's the ego business.

Humoresque' by Alexander de Taeye. Ever

Who I am on stage is very, very different to who I am in real life.

If I weren't performing, I'd be a beauty editor or a therapist. I love creativity, but I also love to help others. My mother was a hairstylist, and they listen to everyone's problems - like a beauty therapist!

I'm aware that different people like to listen to music in different ways. But, I'm not going on the internet to listen to demos. The car is the only place for the amateur gong show.

One of the main sources of mental corruption in this country is the ghost of Vince Lombardi: don't matter how you play the game, don't matter if you enjoy the game, don't matter if the game means anything, the important thing is TO WIN. I think that's as good a definition of mental illness as you're ever gonna get.

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A DJ's job is to channel the vast ocean of recorded sound into a single unforgettable evening.

What Jay knew from his own endless stand-up gigs was that if lights were shining on an audience, they tended to become selfconscious—and a lot less likely to laugh

talented but only a 6 or 7 out of 10, and we both know that the world only gives golden medals to the 9's and 10's

A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class — based on test scores — by over 10 percent in a single year. … That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.

It's great to be here. I thank you. Ah, I've been on the road doing comedy for ten years now, so bear with me while I plaster on a fake smile and plough through this shit one more time.

There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.

Real learning comes through doing.

At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.

I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there.

I saw a drummer play once when I was a kid and I thought, that's really cool. You know, you're moving. You're using your arms and fingers. So I tried it and I loved it.

There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

If you don't win anything, you have had a bad season.