Quotes About Performance

My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor; my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor

The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'

I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.

I put Liam at the top of the list, the male actor list, because I had just seen Schindler's List again and Michael Collins, and I was just like, 'God, what an incredible actor.'

Anybody who's in the dressing room after the show always says, "Oh, my God, I was kind of worried that the show was going to be sleepy because you were half asleep, yawning, and not really present."

I have some speakers up here, thank God, because last night I didn't have them and I was telling jokes and I had no idea which joke I was telling. So I told jokes twice. I even told that one twice.

Talking to god and coming back because that's what we have to do. That's your responsibility as a director, as an artist, as a performer. Your responsibility is back again to your people.

As an actor, you try and be cool, but one of the reasons you become an actor is because you're a film fan. And then you're like, 'Oh my god, Ridley Scott just spoke to me!'

There are more bogeys in the last nine holes of the U.S. Open than in any other tournament in God's creation.

For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.

Martin Sheen is my pinup! And Allison Janney, oh my God. They're brilliant actors.

The bandstand is an incredible space. It is really a sacred space. One of the things that is really sacred about it is that you have no opportunity to think about the future, or the past.

In God's great vaudeville, Mother is the headliner.

In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.

Cable was a blessing for me. Thank god, I've done a show that's going to be iconic. So, if I screw up, it's all right because I already have something that's going to be iconic.

When I got to L.A. I woke up and I was losing my voice because of the dry air. It was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be Joe's Pub all over again."

When it comes to comedy, they always say, "Jackée, whatever comes to your mind." But heaven forbid I can't think of something. It's never happened yet, thank God. I may knock on wood.

I know the new comedy god is surrealism, but it doesn't touch my heart.

I've been playing live gigs since I was 13. I really don't know how to do anything else, and please God strike me down.

If there is any God in this world, He lives in a theatre.

I always wanted to play a Greek god in something.

In the movies, God is an actor just like everyone else.

If you look good, you feel good, If you feel good, you play good, If you play good, they pay good.

Look good, play good. Play good, eat good. Eat good, die good.