Quotes About Performance

Rock and roll mainly but I can play passable jazz also.

I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn't make me any more graceful - they just helped keep me from bumping into the furniture on stage.

The enthusiasm, the adulation for us as jazz artists, in Kiev and Odessa was really heartwarming.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

Yeah, I grew up playing lots of jazz music in school.

When I go to see theater, I'm consumed with professional jealousy.

I learned how to dance every move of 'Billie Jean.'

At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.

The main rhythmic loop in 'Alaska' is me just patting on my jeans.

I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.

For the record, Jeff Jarret cannot play guitar. Honky Tonk Man cannot play guitar. Elias? Guitar, piano, harmonica, drums, you name it. I can do anything.

I'm a big fan of Lance Archer, Jeff Cobb, Luke Harper.

I saw The Jeff Beck Group at the Marquee Club in 1967, when he was with Rod Stewart, and holy smokes, they were amazing.

I got my Equity card right out of NYU grad school in 2000, doing 'The Great White Hope' at Arena Stage. I played Jack Jefferson. It was an amazing part to walk into, to carry that responsibility for that amount of time. The challenges and the breadth of that role were pretty amazing.

I'm always really confident when I play 'Jeopardy.'

For a comic to put a public performance in jeopardy for a snickering little laugh - no, no, no, I don't believe in it.

The way that you are when you're allowed to be yourself is very different from when you're, say, being interviewed by Jeremy Paxman. You're never given the breathing space.

Most of my stuff before CSI was kind of the jerk boyfriend, so I thought this was one of those deals, where these two have a thing going on, so we had a scene where they make out.

The feud with Jerry Lawler was one of the best feuds I ever had. He was the perfect heel and kept his heat. People hated him.

Not only do I sing to him, I sing entire conversations. You become Jerry Lewis.

I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.

I grew up loving David Letterman and Pee-wee Herman, but as far as live performance comedy, all I knew were the Jerry Seinfeld-type comedians of the world, and that's what I thought live performance comedy was all about.