Quotes About Performance

Sometimes before I go on stage, I think about how people can be so judgmental and forget they're the ones who bought your album; they're the ones that are singing along.

You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.

It was tough to not be judgmental of a person like Harshad Mehta. But that's where the training of an actor comes into play. My job is to create that character and present him to the audience. If even one per cent of judgment creeps in, then the whole performance will be affected.

I don't think it's good, culturally, to base all critical judgments on a single performance.

We have to make judgments on the individual players and we're not always going to be right.

I was very entertained by Betty Grable and Judy Garland.

I did one of the 'Amazing Stories.' That was the first time I got to play a character who was a dumb blonde. I actually channeled Judy Holliday.

I love Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey.

I don't do Judy Garland or Mae West, and I'm not a female impersonator. I'm an actor.

I play the guitar, and I juggle.

I'm an elite, recreational juggler.

I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see a really bad juggler who's really funny.

Being a correspondent on 'The Daily Show' is some combination of doing a character and doing stand-up. It's a juggling act to find a balance between being you and playing a role.

I kind of alternate between conducting and playing and kind of juggling those things, but I don't use a baton.

I don't have any juggling or fire-eating skills.

The only day I will worry is if I stop getting exciting roles. As an actor, I have so much to give. There's a lot of fire and hunger in me to juice every part that I get.

Once you get out there and start playing basketball, whether the NBA or college or whatever arena you are playing in or who you are playing in front of, the juices start going, and you want to just go out there and play to the best of your abilities.

I have a lot of competitive juices, and I want to go out and compete on the football field every day.

If a character dies, you get to do a big, juicy death scene. But the flip side is you're out of the sequel, which is where the real money is.

That's an actor's dream to get something meaty and juicy and challenging to work on.

It's easy to diet or get off a diet when you've got a juicy role to play.

I went to Juilliard, for God's sakes. I know a little something about combat.

Juilliard gave me the ability to go and do classical, contemporary, comedy, drama, everything.

I've actually seen a good amount of the shows at Lincoln Center Theater. I went to school right across the street at Juilliard, so some of the first stuff I got to see here in New York was at the Lincoln Center Theater. I've always been inspired by the work that they do.