Quotes About Performance

I just play, man. Try to play good every week, but if it doesn't happen, I just move on. But if I do play good, I do the same thing.

I think it's not very enjoyable for me to move on grass and play because I'm thinking too much!

When I am out there I pay no attention to the crowd and just move on with playing the game.

I grew up in Chicago and was a huge fan of 'The Second City', so when I moved to L.A., I was looking for anything that resembled that... then I started 'The Groundlings', so I went to a show and it was very much like 'Second City'. I was so impressed that that same night I went backstage and I went up to the funniest person there.

When I go to a live show, I want to be moved. That's why you do it. And it's not very often that a band will move you live.

We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do.

When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else.

I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

I can dance. I like hip hop and stuff and jazz movements, but I'm horrible in ballet. I tried.

With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth.

My body can't demonstrate. It isn't willing to explore movements the way it used to. I've always had to find the movement in myself then show it in myself. If I've got the sense of movement for the character, I expect the dancer to get it too.

I love doing fight scenes. I've been a dancer since I was 3 years old, so I think that helped me with the movements.

It's fine with me if people want to applaud between movements of a concerto. It doesn't bother me - it's part of performance experience.

I don't have a lot of stage antics. I don't try to get attention through my animated body movements.

Every characteristic of my character and my moves always came from my real life. My character is kind of close to my real personality.

I like the style I have: I do Mexican wrestling things, I have strong moves, I look strong above the ring; a bit of everything.

I try to do the fancy things out there by going with both hands, making crossover moves, and having a certain creativity and flair to my game.

Damn, I had some great moves. I still have them; I'm just not using them at home a lot.

You don't stop when a musical number comes up and do the number and then take up the scene where you left off. It all moves forward. Your work as an actor was part of your work as a dancer as well. It was dialogue through movement.

A song isn't finished until it's played live, and then it moves on.

You'll always have people saying 'these guys look good' but there's a difference in what we're looking for. We want our fighters to look like fighters, sure, but the moves still have to look good.

Everybody knows that I can play defense. I've showed at times that I can score, but I just think they want to know, 'How consistent are you in your moves?'

Although I do a lot of aerial moves, I use many strong style moves.

In 'The Matrix,' you see the fight between Keanu Reeves and Lawrence Fishburne. It's an amazing fight. But I know that they've rehearsed it for months beforehand. Because in some of the moves you can see them anticipating blocks before they actually happen.