Quotes About Performance

Kissing onscreen is very awkward because you have to worry about angles and you have to worry about where the camera is and you have to remember where your head was in this moment.

I look like a kid onscreen in most movies.

Good acting is confused with good dialogue delivery. Acting is about all about performance, and the way we interpret and understand the character that we bring alive onscreen.

Well, it definitely comes as a challenge to act as enemies onscreen when you bond with the opposite person very well off-screen.

A love story definitely demands a great onscreen chemistry between its actors.

Being an emcee onstage is mostly about crowd control, about monitoring energy levels.

I love being onstage, I love getting applause, and I love the love that comes across the footlights. It's so much a part of what I do and what I've done most of my life.

You don't need to exorcise your personal demons onstage.

I'm very self conscious in a bikini, and I would never get my tummy out onstage.

Instead of acting in court, I decided to act onstage.

No, because I was always nervous about being onstage.

I think sometimes comedians and entertainers and artists, sometimes they get onstage, and it's all for what they want to do. I think you still need to do stuff for the audience. They're the ones who are making it possible.

I hate being up onstage with a microphone.

I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.

Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.

I don't want to be 70 years old jumping around onstage.

You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.

So much about getting onstage is creating a connection with an audience that allows you to go different places and try different things.

I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show.

When I'm onstage, I'm acting.

I was very insecure growing up, and even though I'm not that girl anymore, I think that the passion, that not feeling pretty and being insecure, is where my soul came from. And from early childhood, I let it free onstage.

There is no reason why a guitar player makes the guitar-playing faces. It doesn't help you play guitar. You've not improved your skills. It's because you're up onstage, and the natural inclination is to put on a show. The rock guy faces are just as much of a front or a show as us wearing crazy makeup. It's just a different scale.

My wife and I got to go onstage at a Flaming Lips concert at Webster Hall once. We dressed up like Scientology aliens and danced around. We had a shootout onstage with Santa Claus.

I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.