Quotes About Performance

I love being an entertainer. It's almost been a lifelong journey to find out what I wanted to do.

To get to do a West End play is once in a lifetime chance.

I know what it meant to me to play the Reverend Mother, a role I've, in some ways, prepared a lifetime to do. It's why I took the part.

I love to lift after games.

Sometimes you change just to do something different, to improve the performance, lift the team.

Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back.

All the normal lifts that bodybuilders do, we didn't do them in basketball.

I don't know under what lighting I can play Juliet. Maybe with a small night light illuminating the stage.

At the end of the day, it's a very powerful voice when you're able to perform on any level on any stage and have the audience, have the attention of children. It's a gift. It's not to be taken lightly, and it can be used for good or for bad.

I had a chance to get used to the lights and the camera without all that pressure to... emote.

Big game, under the lights - these are the games you live for.

We do pretty much the same set list every night, and the show's down to certain cues because we have video and all this production and lights and everything going on.

I want to be the physical embodiment of light, you know? And I feel like now people know, when they see the lights go off and this light-up figure appear on stage, they know that's Mustafa Ali.

That connectivity with the audience that I get to enjoy, that's my church. It's not one of ego or anything like, 'I'm on the stage and the lights.' It's just this connectivity, and it's always been that way for me.

I had a lot of green lights, and I showed other teams in the league what I was capable of doing.

I think I carry the power well at lightweight.

It is not that hard to go out there and put on the performance of your life and beat any guy in the lightweight division on any given night.

I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that.

I have always liked shows that have laughter in them.

My goal is, of course, for this show to do well, and I would love it if people liked it.

I'm not afraid. I never liked long last acts.

I'm the sort of actor who likes to talk about what we're going to do.

I'm an actress who likes to work as much as possible, so I'm very grateful for all these opportunities.

I always wanted to be in the limelight, and I found I could get it by being on the stage. That was the beginning of everything for me.