Quotes About Performance

I love playing big rooms. There's nothing like it. It's a power trip.

Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul. That's basically what we do.

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life.

Musicians can travel all over the world and have an audience, because there's no language barrier.

To me travel is triple delight: anticipation, performance, and recollection.

I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble.

Fighting at home doesn't add any pressure - they call it "home-field advantage" for good reason. I don't have to travel. I get to sleep in my own bed the night before the fight.

Being on tour sends me crazy, I drink too much and out comes the John Mcenroe in me.

I think I may drop dead on the stage someday. I hate to think of it. But it's getting tough on me, the travel. The show, I somehow manage to rise up to it, you know. But I have no desire to retire.

I need to sing and I love to travel.

Jet lag is for amateurs.

I had a big troupe, a big army and it was a lot of fun. And, after 10 years of that, I just decided that I wanted to travel and do special dates. I go to Las Vegas these days.

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

I compete all over the world, so I travel two or three times a month and spend at least six months a year out of the country.

At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.

I love to do movies. That's something that I find so much joy in, in being able to travel around and play new characters.

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.

The actor should not play a part. Like the Aeolian harps that used to be hung in the trees to be played only by the breeze, the actor should be an instrument played upon by the character he depicts.

You can shake a dozen glove men out of a tree, but the bat separates the men from the boys.

I like playing the stuff where I don´t know what I´m gonna play. Like the end of Fake Plastic Trees or the end of Paranoid Android - stuff where I can do anything and no one notices or cares.

It's amazing how the same pace in practice can feel so much harder than on race day. Stay confident. Trust the process.

There's no wrong move on stage. You can do no wrong if you just trust your instincts.

I always thought that's the exact metaphor, the perfect metaphor for acting. To go blind, to ignore the danger, and to totally trust.

Thats the hard part about sport: as men we havent started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.