Quotes About Performance

I'm interested in where I'm going and the people I am there to see. Going to Cuba was a great example of that, and the succession of going into Cuba, which is not a very easy place to get into, and playing music for people who have never seen a live rock concert outdoors like that.

Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning.

When I did 'Amadeus,' I hadn't done a play for five years. And I was so happy doing it and felt so foolish that I hadn't done a play for such a long time that I wanted to go back and really kind of reach out for a classical career.

The music is fun. The big difference performing it live is that we might get a little more heated, not as subdued, we'll stretch things out more. It's how you stay fresh after such a long time in the business.

I'm one of those artists that doesn't actually hate my old hits. I love Boston music. I really like 'More than a Feeling.' After playing it to myself in a basement for such a long time, I'm happy to do it out on stage.

I live for comedy. I've been doing it for such a long time. Comedy is hard in itself.

Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance.

There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.

People root for me in such a way that when they come to a show, the experience of not knowing what's about to happen is a great thing.

I look at whatever the finish line is for the character and then kind of act backwards from that and play him in such a way so that that finish line is more rewarding.

I feel really comfortable with going for the reality of the drama, but I'm not much for the comedy of it. You have to make people laugh, or you have to be true to the character in such a way that makes people laugh. It's a whole different thing.

Learning how to rap actually improved my English, because it forced me to talk fast, and I used to suck at that.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don't know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they're always up for playing.

As soon as you have an average game, everyone is quick to criticise and say, 'You suck; you shouldn't be playing rugby.'

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.

If you suck, you're gonna suck real bad, and if you play well, it's going to sound really good.

I'm a confident person in knowing my abilities, but also know, I'm kind of a realist, I know when I suck.

As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.

We'd have to suck away at oxygen canisters between songs just so that we could keep playing.

PCs don't suck. They're inadequate.

Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you're a Hall of Famer.

I'll tell you one thing. I've never heard a director saying that the dailies suck.

So in case there was any doubt, I am here to report that having a play on Broadway does not suck.

In previous roles, I have thought of my body as 'Betty's body,' and I try not to eat too many dinner rolls - please don't fire me! I'll make crazy choices from the neck up, but from the neck down, it's just me trying to suck it in. And in 'GLOW,' my whole body was required to do a function and not just to look as good as possible in a costume.