Quotes About Performance

I've played gay, and I've played straight... I'm proud to be a gay man myself, and I'm thrilled to get the opportunity to play a variety of different gay men.

A lot of my main-event matches will last around the half-hour mark, and if you can have a variety of emotions within that half hour, that's a great story from start to finish.

Standups have all the talk shows, but you never see a sketch group on a talk show. Even on so-called variety shows, if you do see a sketch group or character, it's written specifically for that variety show and usually written around the host of the show or a celebrity.

Tennis does need variety, excitement, and personality.

I got my big break at the Royal Variety Performance in 2006 and returned in 2008, but now to host it is such an honour and I'm unbelievably excited.

Comics were always the lowest rung on the ladder, front of cloth at the Royal Variety Performance. What that means is you're only there so Take That can set up behind the curtains.

In my forthcoming movie 'Jerry,' I play a funny character, where there is scope for me to perform. I hope people would appreciate my performance. Hence forth I would concentrate on doing variety of roles, rather than appearing in skimpy costumes.

Being an actor I believe in doing a variety of roles so that the audience gets to see different shades of me.

I feel that the movie in which I've played a cop or army man have been bigger hits. That's why people remember me more as a cop or army person. I've even noticed that a lot of films in which I've played a variety of wonderful roles haven't done well.

As actors, you have to keep showing variety in performance, as people are lazy to think about you in a different way.

If I don't try and bring variety in my appearances, I will get bored with films, so I can well imagine how bored the audience would get watching me.

I think the future belongs to the comedic polymath. It belongs to the person who can generate the most good material in the biggest variety of ways, whether it's sketches or stand-up or songs or tweets or television or films.

My great-grandfather was a variety hall comedian called Billy Mack.

Well, I'm old enough to remember Carol Burnett, and I would love a variety show type of thing.

I have tried to maintain the variety in the characters I choose to play.

A supportive actor's career depends upon the variety that he showcases in all his roles. If his roles will be similar to one another, then his career will not have a long run.

That's very important when you're doing an ensemble piece, that you give it a variety of levels so it doesn't get too homogenous.

You name it, I've done it: circus, Chautauqua, variety, movies, stage, radio, TV, personal appearances.

The great thing about stand up is you get to do other things. You get to do your stand up tours but you also get to do 'Have I Got News For You.' You get to do a sitcom, but you also get to do the 'Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice.' I'm easily bored, so I like the variety.

When you have a star, he becomes the focus of a variety show, and he has to take himself seriously. But with Super Dave, it's all phony anyway.

It's always better to offer variety to the audience rather than singing just one kind of genre.

In the past my career emphasized variety, singing, dancing and only some acting.

The 'Hullabaloo' spot established me as a variety performer.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.