Quotes About Performance

There's a very old tradition of theater actors doing their own makeup. It's like putting on your mask. There's an element of storytelling involved in it - you put on your character when you put on your makeup. At least, that's how I like to look at it.

I want to take the great tradition of the orchestra within me, to take what the orchestra offers.

Singing 'Family Tradition' with Hank Jr. was a pee-your-pants moment. Hank comes over while I'm singing and puts his arm around me, and my knees nearly buckled. You can put off the fact that this is reality, but when he came over, there was just no denying. I just lost cabin pressure.

I think theater and church are so relatable because it's traditional call-and-response in the way that an audience interacts with the actors.

I'm sure if we had made an album that was more traditional would have been released immediately. When we actually play this music on stage and people become familiar with it, it will become more popular.

I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.

I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him. It was his face. It was whether or not he'd approve of my playing.

I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.

I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

I come from a traditional theater background.

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes through your dressing room.

I got much acclaim with 'Traffic Signal' but 'Superstar' didn't do well.

I've done two Shakespeare tragedies, so I'd desperately like to do comedy. It would be nice not to die.

I think when I started out, when I was very young, I wanted to be an actor and do the great epic tragedies.

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

I have touched all genres, be it comedy, tragedy or negative roles.

When you're playing King Lear, you have to have a little humour, or you will have no tragedy when the king dies.

You never have a comedian who hasn't got a very deep strain of sadness within him or her. Every great clown has been very near to tragedy.

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.