Quotes About Performance

I ain't gonna win no Oscars.

Truly what the Emmys are about are the machine behind them, and Oscars are the same way, where if you have a big enough machine behind you, you get nominated, because truly how many of the best performances actually win... not many.

When you're up for an award at the Oscars, try as you might, it's hard to concentrate on the show.

The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

You don't do a play to compete for an award. This was the argument I always had over the Oscars. I didn't win them. They were given to me. All I did was 2 films. People always say the analogy is Olympic gold medals.

Hosting the Oscars is pretty much the scariest thing you can do. To me, this is right up there with bungee jumping!

Even if the Tonys aren't as glitzy as the Oscars, being a part of the ceremony is no less exciting.

Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.

We are training as hard as all athletes in other countries.

I was always the kid down the street who got the other kids to put on a show. But it was only when I was 19, and discovered ballet and contemporary dance, that I got interested in the fact that you could have a whole evening of dance - rather than just waiting for the dancers in a musical.

Being an actor is lot like being a dancer: you always have to go back to the bar and either work or take classes. Otherwise, you'll get rusty.

It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.

I enjoy my job as long as I can create a character, otherwise it's boring.

I don't plan in terms of career ambitions. The only career ambition I have is to work with people who are going to bring you up and elevate your performance. They'll let you know things that you didn't know already and bring you places that you might not have gotten to otherwise.

I'm interested in telling the character's story, not my beliefs, political or otherwise.

A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

I think everybody ought to be allowed to be engaged in athletics at whatever level the audience will accept.

Too many actors try to get too much out of scenes that they ought to be leaving alone, just doing them quickly and getting the hell out.

Each day, you get an ounce more confidence. When we're playing like we are, there's no reason not to.

When the fans were watching my dad, you could never tell if this was real or is this fake, and that's what made him so special. Every ounce of energy went to being The Nature Boy.

If 1,500 people are gonna see me and they each pay $20, I want to give them everything that I possibly can. They just made an exchange that allows me to live a dream of mine since I was a child. And that's not lost on me. So I want to expend every ounce of power and energy I have.

Nobody does our music better than us.

My object is to make people happy with our music.