Quotes About Performance

My first starring role was in 'Rumpelstiltskin' and the lightbulb moment for me came when I had to stamp my foot at the end and walk off the stage. Everyone laughed and I thought, 'this is great.'

I had the house rhythm section at a club called the Sundown in Hartford. Stan Getz came up and played with us.

When the show starts, I am in my SpongeBob stance, and I walk like SpongeBob, and the first step that I take, I am SpongeBob.

Everyone saw my karate stance against Ben Henderson and Daniel Straus. I pretty much wasn't hit in those fights, and my attacks were almost 100 percent accurate.

I don't need a stage to perform. We just need something to stand on.

You can know that the final show is coming up, and prepare yourself for it mentally, but when it finally occurs, it's like a dream. You stand there feeling the love the audience has for you, and you think, 'Is this really going to end?

The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor.

I earned the opportunity to stand on stage with many senior artists at YG, and naturally, I gained stage experience.

I used to stand in front of the mic and cry.

I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.

I couldn't stand the politics in opera.

I can stand on stage and do nothing, and people will write, 'Divine was outrageous.'

I did things with the microphone stand that no-one else has attempted to do.

I don't do anything specific for the stage. I'm just myself. I can't stand still for five seconds. I'm normally quite active, so that just comes out on stage. If I see people react to me and my music, I just have to give back and express myself.

I can never stand in one place on stage for more than a minute and am always singing, dancing and jumping.

To stand up against Amitabh Bachchan in 'Bade Miyan Chote Miyan,' you need to be a good actor to be able to do that.

How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.

I feel blessed to be able to do my stand up comedy all over the world, because some people never even leave New York.

I used to do stand-up, actually. I had a ten-minute routine I did for a thing called 'Stand Up for Labour' where we'd go around different seats and use comedy to raise money. I stopped doing this routine when I started running for mayor.

I didn't want to perform comedy. I always loved humor. Loved making people laugh. I was a big stand up fan, but it wasn't until I was managing a restaurant that had a comedy night and one of the producers asked me to go on stage that I wanted to do it.

Doing stand up helps - thinking on your feet definitely comes in handy when it's a live show.

Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That's why they call it the 'Fists of Fury.' Michael Jackson danced with fury. I do stand up out of fury. I'm not mad at anybody. I'm not mad at any human being because I'm a human being.

My mum and dad used to make me stand up at dinner parties and sing to their friends.

I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.