Quotes About Performance

I hope people leave my show thinking they've had a worthwhile couple of hours. The worst thing you want is for people to think they've wasted their time or didn't get their money's worth.

Audiences have proved time and again that they don't want a steady diet of any entertainer airing his social views - especially if he's a comedian.

Actors want to do Shakespeare again and again, or want to do Hamlet. When you hear one guy do Hamlet and another guy do it, it's going to be a whole different experience.

Stand-up comedy is the most relaxing thing I do. If I want to unwind and de-stress, I go out and do stand-up, often several shows in a night.

People en masse have always been wonderful to me. I truly have a great love for an audience...I want to give them two hours of just pow.

I am more comfortable doing comedy, and I want to perform comedy. When you can really make someone laugh, that's a healing experience. It's like music. A lot of music is really healing.

I do road gigs occasionally but I don't want to go out on the road for months at a time.

I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.

I use my hands like a sculptor, to mold and shape the sound I want, to clarify.

I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.

I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.

I've done one movie. And it's not a movie I want to stand on as far as acting ability goes. I mean, I'm not going to win an Oscar anytime soon. I'm not Meryl Streep.

I insist on a Steinway for my recordings, my concerts and my home. It is the only piano I want to hear my music played on.

Owners want to make their team a winner so they can get more fans in the stands, and that's why they go after the best ball-players and pay 'em what they're worth.

I wanted to do an acting role in a movie that had nothing to do with the music business or in which I would play a singer or a songwriter. When I act, I don't even want to be thought of as Ne-Yo.

When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.

It was very natural for me to want to disappear into the theatre, I am really very shy.

When we went on the air, I didn't want to be interrupted for an act-one curtain.

I think honesty is a big part. Because when you sing live, you want the audience to believe you.

I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.

When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.

American movies show you how to fight and break armsand necks. I want to make the action in my movies like dancing.

When you find theater writing like in the theater on film but it's realistic, it doesn't matter who the character is, you want to do it.

I like to play fast. I get excited, and I have to sort of control myself, restrain myself. But when the rhythm section gets cooking, I want to explode.