Quotes About Performance

Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.

Competing helps me to polish my shape.

As an athlete, confidence makes me more competitive and helps me perform better.

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

I will play to create history and enjoy myself and give pleasure to the fans.

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

I think the toughest thing for me to figure out, as an actor, was how to translate all those layers that are in there and that history that the writers have done such a great job at forming.

I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.

Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way.

The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

Throughout history there have been black people who have played mammies, all sorts of offensive images, who didn't mind doing it.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.

I almost failed drama at school. I hated it. It was all about the history of theatre.

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

Over 55,000 people saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium. We took $304,000 - the greatest gross ever in the history of show business!

The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry.

When I'm on stage I feel at home

If you ever feel sorry for somebody on a golf course, you better go home. If you don't kill them, they'll kill you.

I had bad days on the field. But I didn't take them home with me. I left them in a bar along the way home.

I'm pleased that they performed as well as they did while we've been in Miami and that's about as far as it goes. Now, we've got to go home and play as well or better.

Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.

The Black Parade has to go home soon, so you're gonna be stuck with My Chemical Romance. I'm sorry. That singer has a despicable mouth, he dresses funny, and he can't sing!