Quotes About Performance

I've found that many of the people who have a passion for karaoke too often have misplaced confidence, which can become aggressive and border on sadistic. I know my limits, and karaoke is where I draw the line. I wouldn't put anyone through the hell of listening to me sing a song, and I sure as shit wouldn't wait in line to do it.

She even started following me onstage during the interview segment of my Netflix show and would sometimes prop herself up on the little table between the guest and me.

Inspiration can't be performed. It's an audience response to authenticity, courage, selfless work, and genuine wisdom.

Mr. Lemoncello bounced across the stage like a happy grasshopper.

When you're not getting minutes, you're doubting every shot you take.

Sometimes it's hard to tell if a joke is working or not for the first couple of minutes.

Sometimes, you know how good certain people are and then you actually get to see them have the kind of matches you know they can have in front of an audience that isn't used to seeing that. Then, in a few minutes the audience is on the edge of their seats, just through the sheer craftsmanship of their abilities.

The most iconic applause I've ever seen is from a Michael Jackson show in Japan - his entrance is actually 15 minutes long, and the crowd is clapping the whole time.

An hour show panics me a lot less than five minutes at the O2. How do you put yourself across and make sure people have a good time in five minutes?

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each night, I feel I've let myself down.

Sometimes in a game - even with the best will in the world - a striker can drift out for 10 minutes and then come back into it.

My show is a sensory assault... in a very brief manner - the show is only 25 minutes long.

I don't know if you could take a whole 90 minutes and say that was the best game we ever played.

Whether it's 90 minutes, or a half, 10 minutes or whatever, I want to show what I can do.

They have barricades at our gigs - to keep people in. We do most of the songs from 'Scrubs' over 55 minutes.

Bryan Cranston's advice to actors, it's my favorite thing, and it changed my life. He said: Don't go into an audition to get the job, go to share your work. That was so liberating. You read it, interpret it, embody it the way you want to play that person and embody them with your whole heart and soul for those 20 minutes.

You open the show with a bang, then don't come back on for 45 minutes.

Five minutes before I went on, I looked at my manager and said, I'm going to get booed. I know it's going to happen. And you're responsible because you put me on here. It was horrible. I've never been more hurt in my entire life.

Obviously, I don't want to be in the box for over a hundred minutes during the season, but at the same time I have to try to play with an edge and battle out there.

I don't care whether a role is 10 minutes long or two hours. And I don't care whether my name is up there on top, either. Matter of fact, I'd rather have someone else get top billing; then if the picture bombs, he gets the blame, not me.

I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.

Pop songs are like a D.J. set crammed into three minutes.

I don't really ever think about whether or not I like the characters I'm playing. I'm more into the minutiae of their behaviour or what they're doing in a certain scene.