Quotes About Performance

I think there's been a myth that QBs makes the WRs but it works hand and hand. QBs need good WRs to throw to in order to be great and WRs need good QBs to throw to them in order to be great.

Over thirty-plus years, a certain myth has grown up around the band. And the last thing I ever wanted to do was put us on a stage somewhere, in less than the best circumstances, and pop the bubble, have the fans come in and say, 'Gee, they weren't that good.' It's your responsibility to give them something to be excited about.

All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual.

I was definitely drawn to the mythology of one man, one voice, and one guitar.

You can write and write, but if you don't have someone who can nail that character, it's never going to live.

You have to have talent. You have to get the audition and then you have to nail the audition.

It's more fun to write stuff when you know someone's going to nail it.

There were always people in the audience that judged me on the way I looked. They just assumed, because I was a girl, that I wasn't going to be any good, and it motivated me to improve and nail it every night.

I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.

We were so young when we started, quite naive and shy - we kind of knew what we were doing but didn't because we hadn't been stage schooled.

I don't want people to come and see our gig because of the magnificent things I'm doing with my hips, but it's their evening, you know. They have to have fun. I'm a little bit naive.

It is something actresses need to go through and I think they look forward to being naked in a movie. I don't know why, but it is something you need to exhaust from yourself.

As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.

It's very liberating to be naked in front of a hundred people, but there's nothing sexual about lovemaking on a movie set.

When I look half naked on stage, it's not because I'm trying to be sexy but because I am dancing and want to be mobile enough to move.

I must be the only actress in history who has been asked to be naked for untitillating reasons.

Drumming is my middle name.

I liked the name Frog Brigade because it lent itself to a lot of cool imagery with the whole frog thing.

I just like to do different things. What is more important than the name is that people know that I really like acting, I enjoy it and I want people to know that I am serious.

I don't care about names attached to the script. That doesn't matter to me. All things being equal, I would like to work with a good script with a good director, and the part I play is of less important than those two factors.

Leaders are judged on merit and not on caste or family names.

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

When I was doing jazz concerts in America, I would use the biggest names I could find.

When audiences start calling you by your character's names, your job is done!