Quotes About Performance

James Spader is a good actor.

Roles constantly have to be redefined in any form of entertainment. Look back at the gangster pics of the 1930s and 1940s and the way James Cagney or Humphrey Bogart would play the part. These roles were redefined in the 1970s by Al Pacino and Rober DeNiro. And again in the 1990s by Gary Oldman and Anthony Hopkins.

I love NBA. I enjoy it, and I also really love the dominance that LeBron James brings to the court.

Some people might say I'm old at 28, but I look at someone like James Milner. He's 32 and playing like he is 25 or something.

When the lights in the arena turn on, I'm Mickie James all the time.

Before we really started writing our own songs in the James Gang, we'd play covers, and then, in the middle of them, we'd go for a jam for four or five minutes. At some point, we had six or seven of those sections, and we didn't need to cover other people's songs anymore.

Black culture - we dance and sing. We're entertainers. James Brown said it best: the things we are make people want to be like us.

I'm rap-game James Franco.

My James Bond wasn't any different to my Saint or my Persuaders or anything else I've done. I've just made everything that I play look like me and sound like me.

I would love to play a fun character. Like, I would love to be in 'A Long Day's Journey Into Night.' I love that play. I'd play Edmond or Jamie. I don't care which.

Whenever Jamie Foxx was on 'In Living Color' and then you saw him sing, it didn't take away from either of those things.

I save all the energy until I get on the stage and then I have a burst of energy and look like I've been jamming all day long. But other than that, I'm a granddad, great granddad.

Whenever I go jamming, people are looking to cut me. The young ones learn my stuff and come play it at me, and I have to learn other stuff. I feel a lot of pressure. But it's cool. It's a good pressure.

The first eight songs we were using someone else's monitors and it is hard to follow the changes when you are jamming if you can't hear those who you are jamming with.

Jamming is really the most awful, excruciating experience for me; I really don't enjoy it.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

You do get into a groove, which is great, when you get to act with the same people a lot. Like with Caroline Catz - it's like a duet: you're like a duo jamming together.

I love jamming with my band because the guys inspire me every time. We all get off on each other's playing.

I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.

I work hard on New Year's eve as I perform at shows. And then round it off by spending a lazy day on January 1st.

SoftBank has had a lot of businesses, but they've always ranked, say, third in Japan or fourth in the U.S.

Well actually, we are working on the live album from the shows in Japan. I'm trying to get that finished.

I think our choreography, which is easy to follow, played a huge role in achieving fame in Japan.

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.