Quotes About Performance

Like most playwrights, I hate talkbacks with a passion that can burn a hole through hell.

From playwrights I had never heard of and performance forms I had never seen to sculpture and painting, I gained immense experience as an actor in National School of Drama (NSD). I discovered what discipline and good taste in the theatre means.

If I don't feel like I'm doing the job well, and I don't know how to get there, or I'm too scared, or whatever, I'm not a happy guy and I'm not pleasant. I'm not pleasant to be around.

That's the challenge you take as a player, coach, whatever... executive... that you're gonna have to perform at a high level, whether that's by luck or whatever, by design, it has to get up there, otherwise it's not gonna be the most pleasant experience, but it's a challenge. And I think everybody would love a challenge like that.

You always want to please your choreographer, director. Dancers are just that way.

When you do comedy, you can't please the world, although I'd like to think that most of my audiences were on my side.

There's always been a confusion about my sensibility. 'Is he kind of edgy, or is he Carol Burnett?' I'm a little bit of a hybrid. I like to please, but I like dark stuff, too.

My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans.

I just focus on trying to please and entertain those who have faith in my talent.

Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.

You want to make sure this particular car is going to please the customer and then you're going to be rewarded with something that is going to please the shareholder.

I can't shout, I can't cry convincingly, and please don't make me dance.

From now on, we want to put on even cooler performances, be cooler, be better, so look forward to it. Please, always look forward to it.

When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

Even if you don't like a concert of mine, please, please applaud at the end anyway.

I work to please my audience.

I try not to read reviews. It's hard not to hear what the critics are saying, but as an actor, I try not to let it in and to just give the best performances I can. At the end of the day, if you're trying to please the critics, you're missing what's really important: being creative and having fun.

'Carousel,' please! I would die to do that.

I started training again four months after giving birth, and it was strange not to be fully in control - I'm so used to my body performing at a certain level, but it wasn't. I was like, 'Oh, man, can we go back to where we were, please?'

The first job I had was a Pampers commercial. And I used to go with my father whenever he would do a performance. I remember clinging to his legs, saying, 'Please. Take me with you.'

I did a music festival in France. I'm not going to name names, but there were bigger bands and DJs on before me, and throughout their set, all I could hear them chanting was 'Hodor!' And I was, like, 'Oh, please stop! It's so disrespectful to the other acts!' In a way, obviously, I loved it, but it was kind of embarrassing at the same time.

When I get on stage, I try to win my pay: to please and that people leave satisfied... being seductive has given me good results.

I'd like to work at the Royal Court Theatre, please.

I think an actor's process should be very personal and private, and sometimes I have thought, 'Oh, please, put it away now.'