Quotes About Performance

When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

I must absorb everything while I'm still singing and step onto the stages of my many homes, and look out at the familiar surroundings, at the people who have come to hear me, to hear music.

I think I am most comfortable when I am on stage. I feel free, like I can be or do anything and it feels like home.

This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.

If I go 500 at-bats and hit 10 home runs, then something's wrong.

I feel like my home is stage acting.

I feel at home in an orchestral score.

When I met Letterman, he told me he thought 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)' was the greatest Christmas song he ever heard, and he wanted me to be on his show to sing it.

What we do every night is we change out the set list as much as we can to make sure that (fans can) go home and tell their friends they experienced something unique and cool.

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them.

In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that, the rest is easy.

That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

I really believe there's more honesty in one live show than there may be in my whole output.

Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.

All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair.

The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.

When I did Comic Relief, I did it to be on the show; it's a badge of honor as a comedian to do that show.

Anytime I sing the anthem, it is an honor and my heart beats out of my chest.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath.

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.