Quotes About Performance

It hasn't been until the last couple years that I've started playing close to my age. But it's fun playing the younger roles because it takes you back to the teen years.

It's great to have an acting job in the age of Reality TV.

The press keep asking me but I will stop when I stop scoring. The problem is football is very ageist. When you reach 30, they keep talking about your age.

I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that.

I think that age is a number. Right now I feel good and I'm playing well, so I think that 36 is good.

I grew up like Athena — covered with playing cards instead of armor — and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.

Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage.

You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress.

The performance of a lifetime is the perfect thing to be doing at this age because I can use the age.

I'm trying to find a character that's my age and I can sustain week after week. I'd like to do a series.

As an actor, you can play different age ranges and different ethnicities.

I was the youngest of three kids, and from the age of four, singing was my way of getting attention.

I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.

Back in the 1960s, I saw Peter, Paul and Mary. I was at that age, about 14, and I was mesmerized.

I started elocution lessons because I was being teased, and I had a brilliant drama teacher. At the age of 14, I appeared at the National Theatre in 'The Crucible.'

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

Being alone onstage is like legalized insanity.

Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.