Quotes About Performance

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

Get up from the piano ... Oscar is in the house. Who wants to be at the piano when Oscar is there? Find something else to do.

People who tend not to report illness are people who are highly competitive and do not want to admit they are not coping.

Nobody wants to be in a mediocre organization. You don't have the same energy flowing through.

The way [Barack Obama] danced, it looked like he could dance in a circle with anyone from Chris Brown to ... well, I don't want to say Michael Jackson, because he's like the king.

Drum Competitions are called such because no one wants to win the big Beat Off.

In my experience of doing physical scenes, half of your energy is spent on trying to get the other actor to enter into it physically with you. Most actors don't want to hurt each other.

I was a power dunker. I want to go straight up, put it down on somebody. I want everybody under there.

I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.

At Cambridge, you have to kiss the vice-chancellor's fingers. But I missed out on that, 'cause I was doing a matinee. I don't want to kiss a strange man's fingers anyway.

The short amount of time I'm out on the runway is like going on a rollercoaster. It's such a happy, exciting feeling. I'm more like a racehorse ready to go - I just want to get out there.

I believe that unless it's a scene where I'm alone, then of course I could do what I want but I think good acting is about what happens between people, not on your face and my face.

I've played for crowds as small as 30 people. As long as people want to see me play then I'll perform.

As long as people want to hear me play and as long as I'm able to play, then I will. I enjoy playing and performing. If I wasn't doing that, what else would I do?

Especially with music, people want confidence.

When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.

I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.

People want to see realism in action now. People want the actors to perform than the computers performing. Though I have done both, I enjoy the realism of action more.

Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

You have to understand where you are on the continuum. I feel I have to be the criminal mastermind on the mound if I want to win.

I love performing, but I never really liked show business. My success is my family. I want to be more successful as a mother.

WHEN we don't get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don't blame the soldiers.

I spend too much money on my sets and my gowns. I think the presentation is important. I don't think people want to see the old show all the time.