Quotes About Performance

There's no expectations at all. Every single person that turns up to a show, you really appreciate them. Every single radio interview you do - everything.

I have to control my mouth - and that's hard enough - and then I have to manipulate the puppet and make it look real - like, make its interactions look real. And then I have to sing at the same time, and I have to have my facial expressions reacting to the puppet... So it's a lot going on, and I have to focus on every single thing at the same time.

Paul Giamatti is truly one of my biggest inspirations, and even more so now that I've gotten to work with him. Every single thing he does, he completely transforms into it. When I watch a film with Paul in it, I'm not like, 'Oh, there's Paul.' I'm completely into whatever character he's in, and I'm not thinking about him as an actor.

I was eight years old when Miley Cyrus made her debut on Disney Channel's 'Hannah Montana' and beginning my senior year of high school when she delivered the VMAs performance that single-handedly butchered the teddy-bear industry.

In the IPL, you are often single-handedly responsible for the fortunes of your team. It makes you more responsible as a player.

I enjoy putting out singles.

Lee Chong Wei is no doubt the best men's singles opponent I've played, and this gives me extra motivation to raise my game each time I play against him.

Obviously, the hit singles get the biggest reaction - that's when you can see people really getting excited.

I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.

Singles - we hated it, going on 'Top Of The Pops' and all that rubbish.

My focus is to do the best I can in singles.

Even when I played, if they gave me the microphone after a match, whether a doubles final or a singles final, I'd handle the microphone pretty well.

You have some singles that play doubles, but you have doubles players that can beat singles players when they're playing doubles.

The difference between wrestling in singles and in tags, there's just a different art to it. There's a mentality.

The consistent support that singles player are getting is way more than doubles, it is 100:1. We hardly get any support, the only support we get is from the government but it is not enough if we have to perform consistently at the highest level.

I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

It's great when you play to an audience that knows the words to all your songs, and sings them back to you.

Pavarotti is not judged on how he sings in the shower. People wait until he gets on stage.

Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.

I had opera training for three years, and I have three albums out. I also did a Broadway show. I'm an actor that sings, so it is in my blood. It is in my system.

Beyonce moves a lot. She's astonishing, dances and sings at the same time. She is buff.

When a guy like Elvis sings your song, well, you know Elvis didn't cut any junk. People thought, 'This must be a good writer.'

Everybody sings from their diaphragm.

The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.