Quotes About Performance

I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.

The best players want to play in the best competition.

People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often.

My goal is to win. It doesn't matter how I do. I want to do well, but I just want the team to win.

I'm not a comedian. I can play off of people, but I'm not that guy. I don't want people being like, 'Yeah, he should have stuck with drama.' It would not be my choice to have critics mumbling that.

I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.

And if you can channel the truth of your own experience onto the stage, that's what the audience wants to see.

In my opinion, if you buy a ticket to see me you're buying experience. People don't want to see me stand there and play guitar, they want to party with us.

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.

I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be.

I like to do what I do in my house and I love to play shows, but I don't want to have to go out and talk to a bunch of people I don't know.

Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.

My cutter has been key for me, and my curveball. I've been able to spot them where I want to spot them.

I played football when I was little. I didn't want to be an actress at all, I wanted to be a majorette in an Australian circus. That was my ambition.

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

If someone has the chance to be top scorer and you want to encourage him, then you give him the chance to be top scorer but it never happened. That's why I believe something is going on there.

I can't act. I simply must be myself, do the things that seem natural to me. When I get with a director who wants me to act, I'll be lost.

The stage is my comfort zone, and playing live is what I've always wanted to do. It's why I want to do two hundred dates a year. I wouldn't feel that way if I were nervous onstage.

Its just that, when the orchestra look at me, I want them to see a completely involved person who reflects what we rehearsed, and whose function is to make it possible for them to do it.

I don't represent myself as a star, but an actor who wants to make movies.

So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.

Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.

As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.