Quotes About Performance

I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

It's always a really great thing to have an actor that does make you want to up your game. It naturally motivates you to do and try things that maybe you wouldn't necessarily do or try.

I don't know why people enjoy what I do. I play piano and sing a few songs - and that's about as exciting as I want it to get. The people who come to my shows will have to bring a good book!

Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.

If you're a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

The fans have been really incredible everywhere we've been. You want to make sure you put on the best concert of your life to show them how appreciative you are.

When you got it going, you got it going. I just keep my focus down the stretch. Thats when I want the ball. Im just not afraid to fail.

My audience wants to see me beautifully gowned, and I have spared no expense or pains . . . For I feel that the best is none too good for the public that pays to hear a singer.

The audience doesn't care that most of happened. They just want a good movie.

Every time you go out there, you want to be a little nervous, have a little bit of butterflies in your stomach and get the juices flowing.

I'm interested in playing old ladies because I am becoming one. And I want to become a very good one!

When you deejay a party, a good DJ's job is to take care of the crowd. If people want to hear Britney Spears, that's what you're supposed to do.

Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

I wish to please the people, but I want to make them cry, perhaps. There, I have said it.

I think it's rather a waste of time endlessly singing the same songs every night for a year, and it's just not what I want to do.

When people leave my show, I want them to say, 'I've never seen anything like that in my life ... It's amazing. He's the greatest entertainer in the world.'

I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.

To book commercials, you do something to get to a callback, and once you get to the callback, you've got three minutes to get the people to want to hang out with you for a day.

I think the officials and NFL owners are playing to the type of game that people want to see.

It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.