Quotes About Performance

Maybe when it comes to my music, or my performances, I'm a little more aggressive because I want everything to be perfect. But not in normal, day-to-day life.

It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.

The improv technique does one of two things. It either makes you raise your game, or retreat into a corner and decide to find a new career. But you do feel like you want to match and develop things.

I think people would want to see Tracy Morgan host Saturday Night Live.

There's a lot of griping and groaning about wanting to play half-baked new songs live, but you don't want it to just end up on YouTube with like 74 thumbs down: "This is the worst!"

Most important to me is to play well and to win. That is what the fans want to see.

I put more pressure on myself to do well. I know how good I can be and I don't want to fall short of that.

If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.

At the end of the day, all people want to do is hear a great singer sing a great song. They don't care about what vocal changes it went through. You can't screw up a great song and a great singer.

I think that's something that people feel that I do really well; I don't mind it, because ultimately I think the characters I play move people, and who wouldn't want to move people?

If you look at my bookings, they've gone down each season. That's something I'm trying to keep improving. On the pitch you don't want any silly bookings

First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want, but for me it always starts in my mind as a sculpture.

At the end of the day, what actors really want to do is act a lot and not wait around in the trailer.

I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!

I want to take piano lessons, I want to study at university, I want to travel, I want to do other parts, make another movie.

Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh.

I'm not playing a comedy. I want to be playing the truth of the moment, and then have the comedy come out.

No one wants to see a hero have to pick up his cane to hit someone, but I'm still quite fit enough to fake it.

As an actor, those are the roles that you long for. You always want something that's going to kick your last role out of the water and put you off on a new path.

While I have not ruled out the possibility of doing music, what I don't want to do is go onstage and perform old songs. I do, all the time, but I don't think it is artistically brave.

I don't really unwind after a performance. I'm still pumped up and just want to get back on stage.

The poet must put on the passion he wants to represent.

We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.