Quotes About Performance

I've sung before, first in a band in high school and then in a band in Norway, but never in a musical.

I did perform in punk bands, but it was more about shouting and snarling than about any beautiful music. I enjoyed singing in 'The Golden Circle' - I've never sung in a movie before.

I can perform easily; I don't mind getting up in front of people at all. I've always sung and felt confident about that, and guitar playing isn't a stretch, but songwriting is. We all have our challenges in what we do, and that's mine.

At first, I didn't focus that much on the Internet. I was more, 'I'm going to write songs,' and I'd have sung that song out in a club, pub, or a jam session or whatever 10 times before I recorded it. We live in an Internet age, and if you don't embrace it, you get left behind a bit.

I get the biggest kick out of it, to hear words that I wrote and chords that I wrote being sung by somebody else.

I've never done a musical before. I've sung, off and on, all of my life. But I have never, ever done a musical.

As a child actor, I had sung a song in the Bengali film 'Bhagyadebata' but it wasn't kept in the final edit.

No-one has ever sung quite so beautifully as Karen Carpenter.

I've sung lead on nearly all the big Boney M hits.

I wear sunglasses almost all the time except when I'm on stage.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

I have no problems with my eyes. It was because when I became big, I suddenly I found myself playing on stage with 200,000 people, and that is scary. I remember my manager told me just put on a pair of sunglasses, and that should mitigate the panic. So I tried it, and it worked.

When I found out that I was going be Juliet, it felt much more real than 'Manon,' because 'Manon' is one of those ballets that you probably do after Juliet, so that never really sunk in to be honest.

Drag queens don't work well outside. We're designed for spotlights, not sunlight.

Performing outside, you have to wear sunscreen.

I was in the original cast of 'Sunset Boulevard.' I played Betty. But I wasn't on the cast album.

Broadway's a lot of work, don't get me wrong. It's eight shows a week. You hardly ever see the sunset. I remember when I left, I was like, 'Oh! The sun's setting! I haven't seen that in a year!' Singing eight shows a week is hard.

I never had a better role than I had in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' That was one of my favorite roles ever.

I've had my day in the sunshine with wrestling.

I don't recommend steroids for everyone, and I don't recommend growth hormones for everyone. But for certain individuals, I truly believe, because I've experimented with it for so many years, that it can make an average athlete a super athlete. It can make a super athlete - incredible. Just legendary.

I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.

I love playing different characters and I love doing fun things and I love to entertain people, whether that be in a comedy or a drama. If I get you to laugh or I get you to cry I'm super stoked, as morbid as that might sound.

If I get back into theater, I think I'd want to do a play. I enjoy singing, but it beats me up a bit. I get super paranoid and self-conscious about my voice.