Quotes About Performance

WHEN I'M GOOD, I'M VERY GOOD. BUT WHEN I'M BAD, I'M BETTER."—Mae West in I'm No Angel

Play the role," Lula said. "That's what we do. We pick a role and we play it. What role you want to play?" "I want to be smart, and I want to be brave." "Go for it," Lula said.

Play the role," Lula said. "That's what we do. We pick a role and we play it. What role you want to play?

she was such a bad actress. she never said her lines rite, it was something perverse in her nature. and wat was her line anyway?

He just didn't want to see how damaged she was. As long as she didn't show him, that was all he asked for. A good show.

I don't want to be the center of attention, which is ironic. I hate having all eyes on me - unless it's for my job, and my job is playing football. I'm not that attention-hungry.

Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.

I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it.

I can't leave the studio until everything is as it should be. And I can't put a record out unless I am completely happy with it. I never want to be at a signing and hear my album playing and think, 'Oh no, I could have done that top note better.'

I always felt like I was stupid and couldn't get anything right unless I was singing, dancing, or acting.

I'm not getting involved in sports anymore, except on film. I'm not agile unless a camera's going.

One has to sing from the heart to let it touch the right chords. Unless you enjoy the song, your listener will not either.

And I think in theater, people don't really focus on the media unless there's a huge superstar doing a play or something.

I won't do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can't, it's not gonna make the team.

You can't succeed in the markets today unless you are part of a great team. The team is the essence of how you win.

A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, that is bad taste.

The classical guitar has a dynamic to it unlike a regular acoustic guitar or an electric guitar. You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back. It's an extremely dynamic instrument.

The truth is, unlike TV and film cameras, the theater stage doesn't add 10 pounds.

If people love you, if you're making money, if the performances you have are unlike anything anyone has ever seen, you get put in a position to be the man.

It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

Stand on the stage in front of 15 people or 15,000. Have them look up to you and tell you how wonderful you are, and if you don't think that's a great feeling, okay, then you're unlike me.

What I'm saying is that, unlike a lot of portrayals of me, I'm not hiding behind the sunglasses. I'm out there working. I'm not trying to sell anybody anything, but I do realize we're entertainers.

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing. Unlike being in a band or a play or something, I don't have to rely on anyone else but me.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.