Quotes About Performance

When I was playing good, nobody was saying I was playing good. When I was playing bad, I would be the first one on the front of the journal.

I cannot do a better job than a journalist. I cannot do a better job than politicians - what I can do is play my football.

In a meritocracy, actors who act well get good roles. They don't get to be journalists, too - a job that, in a meritocracy, should go to those who do journalism well.

The Ballon d'Or? It's up to the journalists to vote. I do not go to bed every night thinking about it. I just try to do my best and score as many goals as possible.

Edinburgh is the most pressurised environment to do comedy. You get an hour. There's no compere. You'd better be on the money straight away; you've got journalists in.

When I go out with Journey, it is a complete cakewalk. I can afford my own bus.

To me if you're going have a show, it should be a show. It should be entertaining and take you on a journey.

As an actor, I have to be fulfilled in the roles that I play; it has to be a journey for me to learn something or involve myself.

No matter how brilliant an actor is, there's always a point where they let you down, but that's all part of their journey. They might be trying something they need to explore.

It's nice to create a character, not just within two scenes, but within the journey of a whole movie. It's fun to do that.

I'm a journeyman actor.

As a journeyman singer, I have to go to where the work is.

The loveliest roles, for me, have a growth arc - a beginning, a middle, and an end - and I'm always grateful when I can find one of those emotional journeys.

And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.

Every night is a joy; you get an hour and a half of all these hits. It's a lot of fun.

Most people have just heard Joy Division on record. And Joy Division on record was completely different than it was live.

When I play a gig and look out at the audience, you're literally looking at a sea of Joy Division T-shirts.

I'm caught somewhere between introversion and extroversion. Performance is natural to me, joyful, but it is also exhausting. I can feed on it, but the expense is high, too, like being a carnivore: I have to chase down my meals.

When I was on dialysis, I willed myself to do 'On the Town.' It accesses my most childlike, joyful love of theater.

You can have a bad day, but as soon as you set foot on that stage it's joyous.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience.

I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.

I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the stage.

One of the great joys of being able to write something you can make, if you get certain actors you want and love, you're kind of buying yourself a front row seat to watch them work.