Quotes About Performance

Nobody wants to hear me rap.

Bad guys are so much fun to play because you can go as far and as wacky as you want.

To play well, you need good players, but a good player almost always has the problem of a lack of efficiency. He always wants to do things prettier than strictly necessary.

Learn your lines.' I want that on my gravestone.

If people want to see me in comedies, that's fine with me.

People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.

I stopped asking a long time ago, "why would you want me to play that?" I'm an actor. That's what I do.

I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.

I did the bible as told through Hispanic people and they laughed and applauded. I thought, "Oh my god, this is what I want to do for the rest of my life."

[Brad Furman] wants to try stuff, he's willing to try stuff. And he wants electricity on the camera. And that's what I want, I want electricity whenever I'm performing.

When I have failed as an actor I've always thought it was my fault. But when I direct something, I wouldn't want the actors to think it was their fault.

You're about to walk on stage and play together for the next few hours so you want to feel connected and make sure that everyone is in the same head space; a good head space.

I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.

Entertainment is like any other major industry; it's cold, big business. The business end wants to know one thing: Can you do the job? If you can, you're in, you're made; if you can't, you're out.

I still have so much passion to perform... That's who Johnny Weir is: I'm a figure skater, I'm an athlete. I want to have fun and enjoy it.

What you realize is that a lot of actors want to be directed. They're there to do the best job they can for the director. They have a lot of questions, and your job is to have answers.

The thing about throwing a fastball is, you want it to be easy, you want it to be effortless.

I would never want something I'm wearing or the way I'm dancing or something to overshadow what I'm doing. I'd rather grab people's attention with my voice.

I have five pitches. Fast ball, change, curve, slider, screwball. I don't know any hitters. Catcher, he tells me what to do. I can get any pitch I want over the plate.

I truly have a great love for an audience, and I used to want to prove it to them by giving them blood.

There are a handful of actors who sustain interest because it's exciting to watch them get better at what they do. I want to be one of those actors.

I love to act, I love to sing and I love to entertain, so if I am passionate about a certain project and I want to do it, I hope to stretch my acting skills.

If people want to criticize a performance, that I understand. I think that's important.