Quotes About Performance

I don't like to do burnt material on stage. Even though my crowd loves to hear me do old stuff, I don't like to do old stuff. So I do very, very little of it.

I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that.

I want to be one of those old-fashioned entertainers.

I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.

I believe when you go out there, you have a responsibility to deliver. I have old-fashioned thinking when I'm out there.

I would love to do a musical. Something old-fashioned, probably.

I have an older brother who's an actor and a grandfather who was an actor.

When I did theatre in Delhi, often the parts were of older men.

I was in my first play when I was 6. My older sister was in a high-school production of 'The King and I.' They needed children for a scene, so she brought me in. I had a costume and a couple of serious lines that got a laugh. I loved the feeling.

Maybe I'm a better actor when I know there's going to be an older woman involved.

To play an older woman, 'til the look is not affected, it is never a problem for me. To play a matured character, it's different. You get to learn so much. It becomes more serious.

Theater in which you eat is the oldest form of theater.

I have the oldest whiplash in the business.

I hate it when bands do that; they're so proud of their new album, they have to play all of it and a couple of golden oldies.

Kids don't see me as an oldies person when I go out on stage. They see me as an energy force.

You have to stop yourself midway through a scene and be like, 'I'm acting with Olivia Colman!'

I watch everything with Olivia Colman in.

Any Olympic sport is great to watch.

I think if I am to win an Olympic medal I'll have to score like I did today.

Little did I know that there's nothing more competitive in the world than a professional ballroom dancer. They are as competitive as Olympic athletes.

Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year.

It was not about the guy who could jump the furthest; it was about the guy who could jump the furthest on that particular day in the worst conditions of any Olympic long jump final.

Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.

The Olympic gold was like going to a theater and seeing a movie that had the ending you expected. But you left the theater thinking, 'You know, that was a good movie.'