Quotes About Performance

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

For me, I want to get across the stage to the people. I want to point at you, thirty, forty rows back, and you know I'm pointing at you, and we're having a laugh and getting it together.

I've been getting my reel together. I think they are looking at me more as an actress because I have a lot of potential and a lot of skills.

When I was 4 or 5 and I could put complete thoughts together and really feel them, I remember watching the Grammy's or something like that and getting real emotional because I wanted to be up there.

You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain.

Connie Smith and I have worked a lot of shows together in the past, and it will be nice to do that again

I had been very close to Anne Bancroft when we worked together in The Miracle Worker

When my family all got together, I'd always get up and entertain everyone, but it was all a bit of a joke. My first real memory of singing for people was when I was about eleven or 12.

To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

I am working on it but I don't thinking having a good serve is the most important thing. It is about a lot of things coming together that makes you a good player.

I think one of the most valuable things Aerosmith has is the energy we produce when we all play together.

I'm thinking of putting together an all-star band. I definitely have a bit of a rock fantasy.

I recognize that there are some great things about not playing a song live, and just kind of piecing it together as you go.

When I began doing stand-up, it took me a long time to get an hour's worth of material together.

Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the scene together later. I can do things onstage that I would never do in real life. It's very freeing.

We don't live in an ancient era. Today, collaboration doesn't mean two singers standing next to each other at the mic to sing together.

I can sing these tunes the rest of my life, but when you get the four of us together, it's magical onstage. That's Motley Crüe.

Robert Altman made that movie Kansas City about the jazz scene in the city, and we saw that band all together, and that was an amazing show. That's what I got into. I like jazz.

We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.

The nature of touring is packaging acts together that have strong catalogues of music. It's about making sure that it's a winning combination. It's really about giving people value for their money.

I think the sports industry and the music industry are all tied in together.

Actors just need each other to act together.

I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.