Quotes About Performance

What theatre people love about theatre - and I totally understand it, I just don't share it - is that they feel they mint something afresh every night. Because I would rather do something until I've done it and then know it's done. New day, next thing!

Creating a set list is like making a running order for an album. Certain things get pitted against one another that make more sense. One song sets another one off, or it might diminish it. You're just constantly looking for the next thing that's gonna make sense in a particular place.

Teaching has made me realize that a lot of my fast playing is the musical equivalent of, 'Umm... umm... uhh...' - it's like when you're trying to think of the next thing to say that actually has meaning, you fill space. 'Umm' has about the same meaning as my fast playing.

When I'm up there, I'm just thinking that I've got to make them laugh or they won't show up next time.

I've learned that every game is different. You could play one team and have a terrible game and the next time you play them have the best game of your career.

Good players go into a season without a contract for the next year.

You have to remember one thing: Football is entertainment; it's not life or death. Once the game is over, you're already talking about next year and the draft. It's just entertainment.

Germans make nice cars.

The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

I was just always into nice cars and the experience that goes along with them.

For the majority of guys, their character is just an extension of what they are really like. I'm generally a pretty nice guy but I'm a bad guy in WWE. So I always say it's like an extension of my dark side.

The president may be a nice guy, but he's just over his head.

You know, OJ was a really nice guy, and he knew his lines. He was nice to everybody on the set. He got to be a better actor, I thought, with every movie.

I always play these bad guys, and I'm really a nice guy.

I haven't played a lot of nice guys.

All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well.

Nice guys just don't finish first in the music industry.

It's a lot more comfortable, I must say. Ummm, I didn't think I'd be playing with another band, I kinda thought I was through with that, but I make an exception because they're nice people.

I'm not flashy. I'll do nice things on the floor, but I'm not going to do the really impressive dunk or make the really impressive block. I think that's what fans enjoy most about coming to basketball games, but that's not what I provide night in, night out.

I would not want compliments that 'I can do different roles'. I want compliments that whatever I did, I did nicely. That's how I see acting.

There have been auditions where they've said nicely, 'Would you be willing to go to the gym for this role?'

People always put me completely out of the game, and that's even nicer because nobody expects you to do a good job and then you do a better job than everybody thinks and it's nicer.

I'm not going to lie to you, it's a lot nicer to have cheers rather than boos.

I'm not always the nicest person to meet, because I forget very easily that I'm an actress when I'm not working.