Quotes About Performance

My fan following is intact. They only like to see me in movies, which I am still doing for them. I do not need to do any long interviews or chat shows.

When I sit down to talk to men's magazines, there's a certain character that I play. She's not fully fleshed out - she doesn't have her own name - but she shows up to do men's-magazine interviews.

I think the good ones, the interviews and the promos people remember, those are improv.

Always let your work talk for yourself. No matter how much you give interviews or how much you are written about, it is always the performance which counts.

I never got into this business to do interviews. It was always about the music.

Back in the day we didn't really have time to be a live act because we were always on TV or doing live interviews. We were being flown all over the world.

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

I could have done a night at the O2 in London, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I'm not being big-headed, but for my act I can't be talking to an audience of 12,000 people. There's no intimacy.

I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.

The Old Vic is a beautiful theater to work in. It's quite a large house, but it has a feeling of intimacy.

I always thought that if you don't feel the breath in the actors' bodies, you lose all the intimacy and truth.

You can't manufacture the feeling of being in a small crowd and connecting on every single level to the very last person in the very last row in the back. I think when you evolve into a headlining act and things get bigger, the intimacy and some of that energy gets lost a little bit.

It's hard to get intimate with an audience.

I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.

I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.

I think all movie love scenes are hard because you can't truly be as intimate as you would be with anyone you're truly with, and everyone's watching you.

Any time we have the opportunity to play in a more intimate room, there's such a huge aspect of our set just built for that. And beyond that, we just love being that close to our fans.

For my part, I like live theater best when it's taut, concentrated and intimate.

I personally don't lock in a performance, because I do leave room for things to happen, so I just make sure I'm very intimate with what I'm saying and why I'm saying it so that no matter what happens, we can do whatever we want to do and leave space for play.

Believe it or not, I always found intimate scenes hard to do.

What I love is when I play gigs, it's just me and a guitar - very simple, very direct and intimate, and you hear every lyric, and you hear every detail.

I'm not used to performing in front of people. When I make TV it's very intimate. In front of a crowd I get so nervous and I'm not that great at it.

I previously played King Tut's in Glasgow, which is one of my favourite gigs. It's really intimate.