Quotes About Performance

You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do but you don't have to be arrogant about it.

A turbo: exhaust gasses go into the turbocharger and spin it, witchcraft happens and you go faster.

The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.

I tend to have a cup of tea, try to stop worrying about what I did wrong, cool down and will the audience back in as soon as possible.

Koenigsegg are saying that the CCX is more comfortable. More comfortable than what BEING STABBED?

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It's really cool.

That was excellent! I mean, it didn't do anything, but it looked really cool!

I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.

I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.

I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.

We have newsreaders behaving like actors, lowering their voices if it's a sad story, as if we didn't know it's a sad story. There isn't a single cool newsreader.

Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.

During an early performance of 'Spamalot,' I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn't remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.

There's something really cool about being able to fly to South Africa and watch one of the most talented African footballers wearing a shoe on the field.

Good people eat all their veggies and all the fruits, but they still have good grades. I call this, Freakonomics."-Adam Pazandak

Credibility comes from results. Everything else is just marketing.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

Of all the actresses ... to me, only Faye Dunaway has the talent and the class and the courage it takes to make a real star.

That's what acting is - it's about having the courage to allow your audience into the private moments of your characters' lives.

It takes a lot of courage to be a performer.

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I'd gone with him to Japan in '91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.

I was in my dad's church, his Baptist church, and I think the first song I ever performed was 'Jesus Be a Fence Around Me.'