Quotes About Performance

In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.

As a singer, I always try to keep my music videos clean.

One of my favorite things about sketch comedy is doing parodies and music videos.

With videos, I find I'm better off if I'm playing a role inside of it. The more you do it, the more you understand it.

I think half the battle is just being comfortable in front of the camera - and I already am, doing so many videos and interviews, so then it just takes that extra step of trying to get into character.

I've loved Michael Jackson, his music, his music videos.

Music videos are notoriously long, not fun, grueling. You are known there as a dancer and it's kind of sad because dancers, in a lot of ways, are under-appreciated and kind of under-respected when it come to that so they don't necessarily treat you in a nice way when you do a music video.

My career was exploding at the same time that social media itself was expanding. But when my online videos were taking off, I didn't think, 'Oh, great! I'm going to be able to parlay this into a career!' I just wanted to be a comedian. I just wanted to perform live.

Part of the reason I fell in love with dance so early was because of people like Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, and Britney Spears. When they would dance onstage and in their videos, that was huge for me. I lived for that.

Instead of watching cartoons when I was little, I had Russian ballet videos from, like, the 1950s and 1940s.

All the things I do in my videos - the jumps, twirls and back bends - will also be onstage.

I don't work with Sia every day; it depends what we do, whether we do performances or music videos, so the schedule is weird, but when we're off, we always try to see each other in between. We just hang out; we went to brunch one time, but for the most part I go to her house, and we eat and watch TV.

I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.

If you watch Justin's early videos, I never let him say, 'My name is Justin Bieber,' and then start singing - he always just sang. And the reason I did that was I wanted you to feel like you were in the room. Or maybe you were seeing something you weren't supposed to see.

We pray before everything - videos, onstage, TV shows. I think that has a lot to do with being successful.

I love performance, but I'm quite happy making videos as well, and I'm inordinately happy writing songs.

When I'm 65 and still performing every week, I'd like people to say, 'You know, when that guy was a kid, he made these weird, crazy videos?' And they'll have to go look for them - rather than it being the first thing they know about me.

There's a lot of variety in our gigs, our records, our mixtapes, and our videos.

I think going on tour, having lots of songs and music videos would be super cool.

I like big, flashy production and videos.

Freak' was a fan favorite on the Dangerous Woman Tour, so I'm so excited to see everyone creating their own videos of the dance routine and showing their freaky side.

Tasha Steelz, I've watched a few of her training videos, and she is super athletic.

This is such a perfect kind of career for me because I love making videos and being in the studio and being on tour.

I love recording and I love everything - videos, everything like that - but playing live is what does it for me.