Quotes About Performance

It's nice to have people interested about a show that you're involved in. It's what actors want.

I'll no longer say that I have supernatural powers. I am an entertainer. I want to do a good show. My entire character has changed.

Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.

Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.

You guys will write what you want to write, people will say what they want to say. I can't control any of that. All I can control is how I play. I'm trying to be the best player I can be.

Making a film, it uses a certain... 'pretend-muscle,' I don't know what you want to call it. It exhausts something in me, I find. It has to be really something to get me interested.

Basically this is what you want - a high performance machine that idiots can run.

They always want me to play myself and that's a big snooze.

For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.

This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.

When you have an audience, and you have people who want to see your character and want to see you, it's really amazing.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.

Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

An actor always wants to sink his teeth into something.

I'm not oblivious to that connotation of changing careers, so I'm just going in and doing the job. I think that you can't fake doing the job. All I want to do is deliver. That's my focus.

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.

What made me want to play guitar was that painting of Wings in concert in the gatefold of Wings Over America. It looked so exciting... I wanted to be part of it.

If I'm going to act in someone's movie, I want the movie to be interesting and be able to get a couple of solid doubles.

What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want.

We wanted it more live and raw. We didn't want a studio sound.

I still get really nervous, though, before each performance. It kind of hits about 15 minutes before we go onstage - sometimes I don't even want to go on. But once I'm onstage I'm fine