Quotes About Performance

That's a lovely experience when you make an audience laugh. Then the nerves go away for a bit. And sometimes you do things then that you've never done before that are really funny.

I've never really had a chance to play a bad guy, and that's something I've always really, really wanted to do. I wanted to experience that really dark side of a person.

Pointe shoes are torture devices. I mean, ballerinas get used to it, but it was definitely a new experience for me. They feel medieval. I was very happy to stop wearing them.

Over the course of a day, you get to get a feel for where you're playing, so when you get out on stage, you already feel like you've had a bit of a bonding experience with them.

When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true.

You really have to be a character to serve it properly. Obviously, you're acting, but you have to have those things in yourself, whether it's the experience or the same qualities.

Working with CGI is more like doing theater where your sort of imagining things. I didn't experience it as restrictive.

As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.

Songs come alive every night and can be a new experience for someone. You might have someone in the audience who has never seen us before and hearing it for the first time. We are aware of that.

Whenever I have a bad performance, I look at it as a learning experience.

It's amazing to hear proficient musicians play your music. It's a once in a lifetime kind of experience.

Being on the floor of a TV show is sometimes a quite frustrating experience.

Yes, for me audio-visual performance has its roots in my experience working as an improvising musician and composer.

Working with them was a great experience. Victor Garber, Stephen McHattie and Ray Liotta - they were all bang-up.

It's not bad to stand in front of 20,000 people and sing. It's nerve-racking, a huge adrenaline rush, but it's also very exciting, and not many people get to experience that. It's pretty special.

Performance ought to improve with experience, and pressure is an obstacle that the diligent can overcome.

My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and as filthy as I am, so the audience can experience what I have.

I had a very sexual experience onstage once. But I won't go there.

There's nothing so freeing as going to rehearsal and having that experience.

The longer my career has gone, the more I seem to score... It's experience and age and knowing where the ball's going to be.

I write and perform for the feeling it gives me, and the experience of being connected with a room full of people to the vibration of music

Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.

As an actor, you're putting yourself out there when you perform. You're bound to experience feelings of vulnerability because of this.

There will always be a theatrical experience because there will always be cinemas no matter what. It's like there will always be theaters to have stage plays in.