Quotes About Performance

Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.

Acting keeps me young! I love that the fans like this kind of action and as long as they want me I'll continue to do it.

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.

I do not know if it is true that all actors want to direct and all directors want to act, but in 1972 I tried directing and decided I had better stick to acting.

When people come to our show [Aladdin], I want them to forget about that for a little while and enjoy the moment. That's what I want to give them. I loved performing since I was a little kid.

My thing is when we're doing a movie or TV show, I just want to go in and look at it and go, "That was great."

As an actor, that's the most important thing. You want to be able to let go and not hold onto anything, so that you can give an honest portrayal and performance.

Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

Sometimes I want to go into Saturday Night Live and rewrite some of the sketches because they're really not that good.

I do my best to make music spontaneously. It's very personal in a way. It's really a direct connection between me and anyone who's watching. I don't want to be in my own bubble. I'm reaching out.

Oh, I know I can sing. What I really want to be is an actress.

Every actor just wants good writing.

And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

I also sort of find the idea that not only do actors want to please when they're onstage, I find actors really want to please off stage a lot of the time, don't they?

If my shirt's off all the time on national TV, with 20 million people watching, I want to look my best.

I'm hungry for a cold and mean character - I'd love it if someone thought I could play gritty. I want to play a baddie, someone really scary.

When you are in the American Idol bubble, a lot of contestants want to go as far as they can and wish to be on point with ready-to-go songs.

I love getting dressed up, but I want to be remembered for my singing.

This is what I love to do. I love to perform for people that get it or just want something interesting.

I'm on so late I'm definitely the last seconds of anyone's attention. So I just want to give them something dumb to laugh at, so they go, 'That's funny,' then fall asleep.

It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing.

Touring is exciting, fun and the reason why you want to be in a band.

The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.