Quotes About Performance

I never played an ingenue.

If you do live shows long enough as a comedian, you can still hear that rhythm of laughing. It's ingrained in you, and it's not something you can really teach somebody. It comes from doing hours and hours and hours and years and decades on stage, performing in front of live crowds.

I always loved singing, ever since I was a child, and acting is something that always been ingrained in me.

The key ingredient is talent - you've got to have talent. If you look at the regular season, they've got the best record in the entire league, so they've got the talent.

In order to inhabit a character, you've got to embrace and empathise with them.

I think that what appeals to me in my work is having the opportunity to inhabit different genres and so to reach different audiences.

I try to inhabit each of the characters as fully as I can, however short-lived they are. But most of my show happens offstage.

You cannot separate sexuality from cheerleading. It is inherently what it is - growing up with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders and all of that stuff.

Now, I'm fully aware that there is only one figure more pitiable, more ludicrous, more inherently ridiculous than a bad singer who keeps on singing, and that's a bad singer who keeps on singing because he has issues.

I feel acting needs professional training. Very few actors are inherently talented.

I used to do theatre in school and college. When I started working on television, only the camera was new. Theatre experience really helps one lose inhibitions.

As an actress I feel that if you start to impose your own inhibitions, then you are not doing your job.

When I get in front of a camera all my fears and my inhibitions just go away. As a model, I feel that I am acting, too, playing different parts and showing different facets of myself.

One has to get rid of his inhibitions, being an actor.

'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' has helped me shed my inhibitions. Dancing in front of an audience was not easy for me. But I managed it and got progressively comfortable with the audience as the weeks progressed.

Initially, it was my dream to get into RADA. Then I got in. So it became my dream to show them I wasn't half bad at acting.

I think I've gradually learned to become more of a frontman than I was initially. I mean, when I first started, especially playing with Alter Bridge, you know, I really considered myself more a guitar player who sang.

When you're initially a heel, it's easier to be a heel. I'd rather people hate me than try to get them to love me.

I was a bit hesitant in theatre initially, but ever since I jumped into it, I have been pretty enthusiastic.

Initially, if I get start, then I play in a flow. It is good if I bat high up in the order.

My last show that I did on Broadway was - I hate to say this, but - 'Cats.' There you go. So I was doing 'Cats' on Broadway, and I injured my back. It was a really tough show.

It's always better for the players being injured to come back to a winning team; it takes pressure off their shoulders.

It's tough to play well - or not that well - when you're injured.

If you play a bad game, you can't say it was because you were injured.