Quotes About Performance

It's just a lovely way to do comedy, where you have the freedom to try stuff, but then you also have a really strong, solid script to go back to if you're brain dead and tired.

That's what I normally pride myself on, being a solid defender and giving all my energy on the defensive end.

Magic's quite a solitary pursuit - a thing you can do for hours and hours, getting better and better.

Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.

The pushy showbiz kid thing was always the performance, not the person. I'm very solitary. I don't like socialising.

Acting can be very solitary, even if you're in a scene with someone else, because you worry about your own performance and if you look good.

For me, acting has often been solitary. You're all together, and then boom, you're gone.

Headlining can be sort of solitary - you're sort of on your own out there, and you start to feel for a change.

Normally, with stand-up, it's quite solitary, you write the material on your own, you perform it on your own, it's all very much on you. Your own thoughts. You have to sort of modulate your own performance.

I always loved that solitary experience of making things. There's a solitary aspect to animating... It's ultimately the animator and the puppet coaxing a performance out of it.

Solitude is very restorative for me, especially because I spend so much time around other people and performing to people.

My solo show, 'A Lot More Me,' is part drag show, part burlesque show, part circus show, and part fashion show.

I still approach a scene as one would approach a solo. There's nothing set or pat.

I played a gig at the Montreax Jazz Festival once - and on a song called 'It's All Gone,' I had to do free-form slide solo. It's the best thing I've ever done - because I wasn't thinking about it.

People want their actors to do comedy, too. They don't want any comedians next to the actor. They want one solo hero and want to see everything in him.

I fix things all the time. Every time I do a solo, I re-check it and correct things that don't hit the mark.

For me, if we're going to have a guitar solo, it needs to be over the top.

The best slide solo I ever played was on... what's her name? That girl singer who used to be with that all-girl band? ... Belinda Carlisle of the Go-Go's! That's who it was. I played on one of her albums.

I mean, in the course of an evening, people will take a solo here and there, but generally it's all about the rhythm of that music. Dealing with the rhythm with everything. That's essentially at least my concept of what that group is.

There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.

Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.

At a festival, a lot of people came to see other artists, so you have to put on a signature set and performance: 'This is what I do, this is why I'm here.' At solo gigs, I'm a DJ - I'll play two-and-a-half hours, and not just my own music, also my favorite songs by other artists.

I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.

When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.