Quotes About Performance

Once you're in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, 'Aha!' and 'Tada' at the end of the numbers; but it's a different kind of discipline you have to go through to maintain that kind of performance.

I think, mostly for people on the outside, it's a lot about numbers or stats. More or more. That's how the football world is going, in that direction. But I'm not really looking into it. I'm just trying to be the best I can, to create as much as possible.

I think my numbers speak for themselves.

If Hello' had been my debut film, the numbers would have played out differently.

I couldn't care less what my numbers say at the end of the year. I just want to win games for the Astros.

People are confusing me with a good actor when I'm just a good mimic. When someone asks me to play a nun from the fifteenth century, you'll see what I mean.

I'm an assassin on the court. And at home, I'm a nun.

When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.

My first role was an angel in the nursery nativity. I spotted my mum halfway through and shouted over someone else's lines to ask if she liked my costume. I've learnt not to do that now.

Each actor, every single time you work with an actor, you have to come up with the language that's going to serve them. And that's what allows them to give the performance that you want to nurture inside of them and what you think they're capable of giving.

I think I've nurtured the following that I have to the point where I can consistently do a certain type of numbers when I put a project out.

When you hire me, you hire a nut who is going to work 24 hours a day for you and never, ever burn his audience.

During the season, nutrition is so huge.

Nutrition and fluids play a big part in what you're doing. You can work as hard as you want inside a facility, and your program can be great, but if you don't balance it with a quality nutrient plan, you're going to have some issues.

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with lines learned, clear on what the director expects of me, with my buttons buttoned and my jewelry on correctly - and then I completely commit to play acting.

Any Michael Jackson song will make any dancer go nuts.

I've done two shows every day for years, but I don't think I could work on just one show a week. I would go crazy, and I would drive everybody nuts. I've got to feel like I'm under pressure.

There is no way I could've been so durable playing in the Western Conference. The travel is nuts.

To put it in a nutshell, I'm known for basically killin' the rhymes, you know what I'm sayin,' goin' for it.

My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.

I have to be obedient to my fans and come on back and give 'em everything that they want.

The object is to win as many games possible.

If there is one thing I object to, it's actors talking about how tough their jobs are.