Quotes About Performance

I don't have any complex plans for playing a character. I think all I try to do is not make too many bad guy faces and not ever try to seem too good. I just try to put it in the middle somewhere.

I would write scripts and little plays and perform them in the living room for my family when I was little with my brother until my mom said, 'Alright, you need to go do it somewhere else other than the house.'

I just loved the feeling of performing, of using my imagination to take me somewhere else.

The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.

This is what I believe about performing: There is no reason to be on stage - there is no reason to be there - if you're not going to put all your baggage somewhere else and just be honest. Whatever you're doing - screw it up, do great - just be there, and be honest. That's the most important thing.

If you're not doing something or saying something in comedy, the camera is going to go somewhere else.

In 1988, Christmas, that was my last performance because I moved to Hawaii to raise my son.

I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.

I think one of my favorite productions ever was Sondheim's 'Assassins' at the Roundabout in 2004. Beyond brilliant.

The music for 'The Last Five Years' is like running a 26-mile marathon, and singing Sondheim is like ballroom-dancing up Everest.

That's the only show where, if anyone says to me, 'Is there a role you want to play?', I say, yeah, I want to play Sweeney Todd. Stephen Sondheim's so clever; it's a profoundly brilliant piece of work.

I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow.

'If You Could Read My Mind' is a different experience every time I sing it. It's just that kind of a song.

I always sing Adele in the shower. But everyone should know you never sing an Adele song in public because no one's better than Adele.

I'm the smart aleck. The class clown. I'm the guy who does the song nobody expects.

In my song 'First Class' from the film 'Kalank', I was okay with the shorter part in the duet because it was to praise the man.

I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think.

It's not enough to play a song: you have to inhabit it.

The buzz you get when you're playing a song and everyone is screaming and dancing and what have you and singing along is incredible.

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.

I love the song 'Picasso Baby,' and I think the performance art piece was brilliant. I love that fact that Jay Z is continuing to raise the bar on hip hop.

When I perform in another country. The local people there sing along to my song in Korean.

I like singing in harmony - I like not having to sing every song.

I try to just encompass the entire feeling and emotion behind the song the best way possible, and if that's 100,000 screaming guitars right in your face, then that's what's going down.