Quotes About Performance

I really don't focus on the competition at all. Like even on the football field it's me versus me.

I'm a hundred percent looking forward to Brie Bella versus Stephanie McMahon.

I was able to play alongside, in my opinion, the best hitter with Miguel Cabrera and kind of watch the way he goes about it and the way he looks at situations, when to try to drive a ball versus when to shoot a ball.

Any time I strap it up and play, I'm ready to turn on versus anybody.

I was 270 lbs with a 48-inch vertical, benching 500 pounds, running a 4.5, 4.6.

I did my first Broadway play, 'The Vertical Hour,' in 2006, with Julianne Moore, who's always been one of my favorite actresses. My scene was with her, so it was nerve-racking.

I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.'

I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary.

It's very hard to be a good actor, you know. It's easy to be cute.

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar. My favorite thing is when cartoon fans show up to my live gigs! They are always the most kick-butt audience members 'cause they're not trying to act all cool like a lot of the music fans do! It's refreshing!!

There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can't get it anywhere else. And I've been doing it since I was 23, so it's part of my being - it's part of my fabric as a person.

I took dance from a very early age, although my first recital, I remember refusing to go onstage. I think I was three. It's funny because that stage was also my high school theater stage.

I watched professional wrestling at a very early age.

At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.

I had the acting bug from a very early age.

As far as music is concerned, I played music for a very long time, so I have a background in that.

I've been an actor for a very long time, and I've had the opportunity to do theater a couple of times.

There is a lot of propaganda about opera singers not being able to act. That's not necessarily true and hasn't been true for a very long time. And certainly there were those instances when singers were told they need to fit into a certain size dress. Of course, women. Men? They just make the costume bigger.

I love to be a vessel through which characters can come through. And if I can move an audience with my work, then I've done my job.

If you're an open channel when you're onstage, if you're just a vessel, things are going to come out that are stored away deep in your DNA.

The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.

No individual has a vested right to a job when that individual fails to perform adequately.