Quotes About Performance

There are two types of people, two types of performers: Performers who know how to keep a show going, literally, when the power is gone and performers who haven't had that much experience and will panic and freak out and don't know what to do.

I want people to believe that I can pull off more than one or two types of genres or characters.

I love singing all types of genres.

It's nice just to be able to go out and, basically, be able to play other types of music and not have any pressure to almost explain it and justify why you did. I just do it because I like to have some fun.

I loved working in Pittsburgh - the theater there is amazing, so many different types of theater.

I have different shoes for different types of climbing, six or seven different shoes that I alternate.

I enjoy doing all types of role, small or big.

I was really into more over-the-top, entertaining kind of characters, larger-than-life types of things. That's the part of wrestling that I really enjoyed.

You have great assets if you're a dual-threat, but you still have to throw from the pocket and do all those types of things.

When I'm in front of a crowd, I don't think 'Oh, there's some hard-core metalheads and some alternative fringe types, so we should be okay.'

There are two types of session guitar players. One reads and only plays what the 'dots' say. The other adds that something special and plays notes and solos you dream of. Big Jim Sullivan was such a player.

There's certain types of music where the artist sells the song - where it doesn't really matter what's going on with the song.

I know from Chelsea that it's not about one or two brilliant performances. It is also about winning different types of matches.

My father was a TV scriptwriter. He would perform his dialogue out loud, while my mum transcribed it at the typewriter. So I grew up thinking that plucking characters out of the air was an extremely normal way to behave.

On stage, I'm this figure, this actor, who does things that people aren't used to seeing and I relish in that reaction. In real life, though, I play golf, I shop and I walk around with no makeup on and my hair in a ponytail. I may not be the typical middle-aged Joe, but I'm closer to normal than you think.

I definitely started to perform a little bit in middle school, but not the typical musical/play route. I think that I am funny, but it was more of a social thing, where that was my part in my circle of friends.

'Daddy' is an amazing Bollywood debut for me. I don't play a typical Bollywood heroine. It's a performance-oriented role.

Given the typical fee structures of hedge funds, they need to do something different to make money in a consistent way.

A touring comic's typical day roughly amounts to an hour of being laughed at and 20 minutes of being photographed. The other 22 hours and 40 minutes are spent in silence.

On a typical gameday I eat pasta, salad and drink lots of water.

Getting to prove yourself in a room that's not your typical demo is an experience every comic should try. It makes you better.

I'm certainly not your typical front-man material. Some people love being on stage and really open up, and I'm sort of the opposite of that. I don't crave the spotlight. I'm still not comfortable even talking on stage.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.