Quotes About Performance

I think South Korea was one of the best shows I've ever done in my whole life. The people there were crazy. It was literally Beatlemania.

If you put me in 'South Park,' that audience is going to fall asleep in five minutes.

American companies based in Scotland employ large numbers of people - in fact, we are the best performing part of the U.K., outside London and the southeast of England when it comes to attracting foreign direct investment.

My drag is that real Southern dragged-out style of drag.

I tend to play every color in the Southern rainbow, and the challenge is to make each character different so I'm not doing any generic 'Southern acting.'

What I do is not regional comedy, and it is not based in the southern area.

I don't travel that much with my band Los Pacaminos as it's quite a big crowd, but we got invited down to southern Italy once.

When I was 17-and-a-half I volunteered for the Wrens. I auditioned for a play and we took it round the Southern Command area and I really enjoyed it. I got laughs and that was when the bug got me.

You can't do Shakespeare with a Southern accent, honey.

I sang with Anita Bryant in the Southern Baptist churches.

Here's the thing about Red Sox fans, or actually just fans from that region, in general: they appreciate the effort. And if you mail it in or if you give 80 percent, even with a win, they'll let you know that's not how you do it. They want - if it's comedian, if it's a musician, bring us your best show.

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Motley Crue could be the first band to play on the moon.

I don't know how, at an age when you're trying to put your identity together, how you cope with the pressure of a performance space, which is what social media is.

Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone's grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

Working with a good artiste is always a pleasure. If you get a reaction from your co-star, then you get the space to perform well.

I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

It's such a rare and rewarding thing to be in control of space and time for two hours a night, to go through a journey and take the audience along. There's nothing quite like it.

Every good, successful player, especially an attacking player, has a well-developed sense of space and time.

I'm very interested in heritage restoration, and I'm working with a group of people to create a number of academies and performance spaces to encourage native arts and crafts and to explore African history.

The Comedy Bar is an intimate club, which I prefer. I refuse to play theatres, because large empty spaces make me nervous, and I don't enjoy the echo. I'm no sell out. Literally.

The function of arts centers goes far beyond being places for performance. They might not be explicitly religious, but they are civic and social spaces.