Quotes About Performance

Soccer players generally burn through all of their carbohydrate stores by halftime, so how are you going to replace those? That's what we do at halftime.

I'm a huge sports fan. I love the psychology of athletes and the culture of athletics. I'm constantly drawn to those kinds of stories.

Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.

I write these shows one joke at a time. There's no continuity. I do try to figure an order to the stories, but there's not continuity.

I think that's why I'm an actor: so I can tell those stories without having to really live through those stories with real consequences and real stakes, real responsibility.

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.

I don't know acting, but I choose good stories and portray emotions according to the story.

Cowboy James Storm and Eli Drake, those guys can talk and rile the people up.

Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.

We have a lot of raw talent hidden in this country capable of taking on the world dance stage by storm.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

The point of acting is to pretend you're someone else and sell a story.

I started dancing first, but felt I could also tell my story through my music.

The thing I love about acting is that you can bring something very personal into the open and at the same time remain hidden because you're always playing a character in a story that someone else has imagined. You're always protected.

You always feel pressure to do your best, and when you know that the story revolves around you, it can become very overwhelming.

You'll get nowhere buying stocks just because they have a great story.

One of the things that makes you want to be an actor, speaking only for myself, is that there's something infantile about it. You're suspending disbelief, pretending and entering into a story world.

On stage, generally speaking, the story is stopped or held back by songs, because that's the convention. Audiences enjoy the song and the singer, that's the point.

I don't storyboard, and I don't really shot list. I let the shots be determined by how the actors and I figure out the blocking in a scene, and then from there, we cover it.

I was moaning and grieving as if I lost one of my own children. It was probably one of the most real feelings I ever had on the show. I was just sitting there wailing with no lines. I was beat after that storyline.

What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.

It's of course important to mention that when DJing, I'm building my own story through the music. I'm figuring out what song to play next, what song to play after that, and how the two will blend together. How the emotion is going to develop from one song to another. So I first build that storyline.

If it is within limits and forms part of the storyline, I have no hesitation in doing glamour roles.

In a drama, you generally have to be very faithful to the script and the storyline, and it all has to fit together, and it's weighty and serious.