Quotes About Performance

Every actor tries to come to Broadway be it Richard Burton, Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor or Shirley McClain.

When you don't win games everyone tries to stir the pot but this is the circus we're in.

Every season I think it's right every great team tries to improve the quality of the team.

That's something Pentatonix tries to do in all of our music. We try to keep it clean so that everybody can come to our shows.

In the nets, Joe Root hits the most sixes. He tries to take us down all the time. I think everyone is capable of hitting big sixes and I think I'm the best of all of them. But Jos is the one guy that everyone knows is out front. Jos is power with timing.

The VMAs have always been a moment where each celebrity tries to outdo the other in making the biggest moment.

An actor feels the dilemma of being a human being and through his art tries to explain the condition of man.

In ODIs and T20s, if the run-rate is high, then the batsman tries to go after you and get out. But in the longer form you need to get them out with your skills. You need to use your brain more.

When I am on stage, I am just an honest artiste who tries to let people know me, not only as a musician, but also as a person.

I have two trifling ambitions in the theater: to make a lot of people laugh and to make a lot of money.

You can hit your legs really hard, you can get very, very sore from training and I love that, but, the one I'd feel most on stage is legs. But, the thing that happens is once the adrenalin kicks in, that's the trigger.

I'm going to stay on stage until I drop dead. Then I'm going to have myself stuffed, like Trigger, and I'm going to put me in a museum.

I'm an actor who believes we all have triggers to any stage of emotion. It's not always easy to find but it's still there.

Acting is a stressful environment to put yourself into, and stress triggers Tourette's, but I think it's partly an outlet because when I'm acting, I'm putting my mind, body, and soul into something, and that's one of the times during the day when I don't tic.

For many comedians, two common anxiety triggers include performing in front of family members and doing brand new material.

It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.

It is very gratifying to see the music from 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy find a new life on the concert stage as it is performed by different orchestras and choruses throughout the world.

People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio.

In junior high school, I had this singing group called The Halsey Trio. We would sing songs by The Temptations at school assemblies, so I figured I could do something like that again.

My favorite lineup is just a trio, because then every night you can improvise and change the repertoire. Keyboards and brass can be great, but it puts you in a different ballgame because you're not quite as free. You have to stick to the arrangement of the song.

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.

First time that I cried at a work of art was at a drum solo that I saw. A drummer named Winard Harper, part of the Billy Taylor Trio, gave back in - I would have been in high school - 2005 or something.

Just say the lines and don't trip over the furniture.

I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.