Quotes About Performance

When you are an artist, you want your audience to think its effortless and easy.

I've been thinking about where I want to take my live show. I want everything in it to be pink, gold, and black. I don't want people to feel any other colors, like brown or yellow.

I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I'm proud of.

I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

Arsenal and Manchester United play the best football. They're not happy with one goal, they want to win by three.

I love being an actor, and that's really the bottom line - in any medium, in any genre - and I want to do it.

The thing about having an audience right there laughing is that critics can write what they want, but the proof is right there in front of you.

I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.

The red lips are - I don't want to call them "armor," but they're the clothes of my character, and I'm in the business of entertainment. Wearing red lipstick helps get me into that world.

Actors want to surprise themselves. When it's really good, you kind of transcend yourself, and that happens infrequently. Very, very rarely.

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.

I'm so busy trying to be other people. You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you.

I think people want the intimacy in the engagement of sitting in a theater with people and seeing something happen live and engage in that. I think that could be a very powerful experience.

I've always really been a fan of scenes in which you're able to be as natural as you want.

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.

I believe that people want to hear good songs and they want to be moved.

I'd like to think I did well. I'd like to think that, if I had a must-win game, the guys I played with would want me to have the ball. But no, I don't think I deserve to be in the Hall of Fame.

When I'm on stage I don't say anything. The last thing I want to do is share my thoughts. I don't know if that's mysterious - maybe it's just old fashioned.

I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.

The show has to be good because you want to be good. But if it's not good, it doesn't matter.

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.

Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.

The audience wants you present, not perfect.