Quotes About Performance

In the theatre the audience want to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

I don't mind playing absolute bastards... I just don't want to play the grouch.

Hearing people clapping draws you in pretty quick. It's like bungee cord jumping - it's a rush; you just want to do it again.

If ever I needed an eight foot putt, and everything I owned depended on it, I would want Arnold Palmer to putt for me.

When I have the opportunity, I want to perform the guitar live for my fans. Please expect that!

Even Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci were entertainers. In that way, I am an entertainer and want to make art that is fun.

Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.

I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.

When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.

Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that's what I want from you right now.

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

I am pushed by my critics. I don't want to say I want to prove them wrong, but it pushes me on the field to play with a chip on my shoulder, and I play best when I have a chip on my shoulder.

When you are working hard, you don't have time for anything other than what you are doing in the scene and what the director wants.

Whatever it is, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people. And if that's what you want from a job, then this is the best job you could ever do.

I think the actor or performer should be - to touch that truth inside of a person. Touch that reality so much that they become a part of what you're going and you can take them anywhere you want to.

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do that it takes you off your game.

Who wants to see 3 aging old racists on stage, anyway?

Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.

I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer.

When you take an energetic song and add it to one of the most energetic live performance set's you get pure mayhem...which is what the fans want to see!