Quotes About Performance

Spittin' blood, smokin' guitars, fire everywhere - Kiss is where I started.

I don't prepare when filming kiss scenes.

I don't believe in the popular dialogue, 'I will kiss if the script demands it' or something like that.

Before shows, we rub elbows and growl. It started once when someone had a cold, and we didn't want to hug each other. So we started rubbing elbows. And we don't kiss. We just go, 'Grrrr!'

You know, with bands like Kiss back out on the road and Aerosmith coming out, we are going to be a band like that, in the sense that it's a big rock band.

Kiss scenes are one of the flowers of a drama.

I did 'How to Succeed in Business... ,' 'Kiss Me Kate,' 'Godspell,' and 'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown' in high school, all of which were fun.

I've been very lucky - I've worked consistently, and I haven't had to kiss a lot of people on stage.

It's not that we go around the set thinking, 'Oh, today we are going to kiss, so let's enjoy'. It's not that. It's acting. If it's important for the script, so be it.

It was the glitter days, and the New York Dolls and Kiss would come play at the Coventry, all those bands would come in from Manhattan.

People don't come to the theatres to watch a kiss. It's the story that appeals to them.

I don't feel like I've ever kissed any of the people I have done for acting. That moment didn't exist for you; it existed for that person.

I don't want people kissing my butt. If I had a bad show and I know it, don't tell me I had a good show. I hate that. I guess because I'm 17, people think I don't see stuff like that.

All this cuddling and kissing on stage these days, well it's all right in football when someone scores a goal, but not when you're playing darts.

I think less is more when it comes to kissing in the movies.

I can't bear kissing scenes.

Kissing on screen isn't easy.

I don't necessarily like the things footballers do. All these kissing the badge, just doing it for the clout.

I think it's almost easier to do a kissing scene with someone you don't know.

I've never been that comfortable with the acting thing. It's difficult for me to separate what's really going on. If there's kissing, that's kissing. I'm not acting; I don't know how.

Whenever I read a script, I don't differentiate between a kissing scene or an emotional scene.

If you wanted to hear politics, you'd go to Henry Kissinger; you wouldn't go to hear Jackie Mason. The reason I speak about politics is because I know I can get a laugh out of it.

I started out as a drummer, and now play with a back-to-basics rock band called the 'Luddites.' I'm happiest when I'm behind the kit.

For Kitty Gilbert in 'Topsy-Turvy,' I had to get to the point where I could improvise in the style of 1880, which is difficult. The research for that was huge.