Quotes About Performance

I've watched the Emmys for almost my whole life, so it was crazy to finally be there in the audience clapping and actually going on stage. Hopefully one day I'll get to be actually nominated.

It has to be really interesting for me to perform the same role for 365 days non-stop. It becomes taxing for an actor to perform the same character for 12 hours every day, and then, after a point, there's no growth.

None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.

None of the characters I've played are really like me. That would be boring. That wouldn't be acting.

I liked singing, but I didn't like all the politics and nonsense that went with it.

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

We've done shows - we'll be in Dublin, and it will be nonstop pandemonium to the point where you think the crowd is going to implode, because they're making so much noise and they're so excited.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

It is normal to be nervous.

Allan Donald and Shaun Pollock were my heroes, so I thought averaging 22 or 23 and taking five-wicket hauls was normal.

People like to see certain actors do certain things, and people like to see me play that role. I also have no interest in playing a normal girl in a romantic comedy in some cutesy thing.

I like to keep my normal life under wraps but in front of 80,000 people, I'm going to perform.

For someone who gets into the character and shoots for long hours, it is pretty difficult to cut off from the character and return to their normal life.

Adrenaline is always shimmering around in a theater, which you don't get so much in normal life unless you're scared or something goes amiss.

Normally, 'Saturday Night Live' is about as entertaining as an ocular migraine.

Normally, Celtic dominate in their own league but it's difficult to get good results in Europe.

As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.

Normally, if you go through a game without attracting attention, you are doing a hell of a job.

It's a lot of fun to play someone you don't normally think of yourself as.

I have been doing 120 miles a week, when normally I would do about 140.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.'

Normally when I'm sent a script I'll read it through to see how it hangs as a story and then I'll go back and read it through again and look at the character.

In the work that I normally do, you have a whole script, a whole arc, that you play. And I do believe a good actor will play every bit of information they're given.