Quotes About Performance

It's not about being modern or classical or about being sexy: it's all about exchanging energies with the audience.

I wanted to be Laurence Olivier, basically, to be a great classical actor, and also be able to do modern things.

With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.

I thought the best route to being the great actor I wanted to be was to play the great classical parts.

The classical actor in England makes roughly the equivalent of a bus driver.

I never went into acting to do film. I went into it to do theatre - classical roles.

I'm not a big classical actor.

Classical music can rock you!

I think classical dance is not seeing the evolution seen by classical music.

The choreography in films is completely different. I find it easier when I am asked to dance to classical music, but it's a different ball game altogether.

I wanted to be a serious actress and do all the classics.

Classics stay alive because a great actor or a great director wants to do them.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor in classics like Shaw and Shakespeare and Chekov and Ibsen.

England is a mecca for actors who want to do the classics.

My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and made me sing a song, which was really scary, but it was fun.

A classroom setting for me was an audience.

I took care of business in the classroom and on the field.

There's a lot of pressure to chitchat with the audience. But when they're in school, people don't want to get up in front of their classroom when they have to talk about themselves or a project.

Whether it is a classy performance where you are creating a lot of chances or a scrappy one-goal win, it doesn't matter.

I usually don't play really good on clay.

I know I can play good on clay.

My stand-up act is very clean.

A lot of times you'll hear bands and it's a different sound coming out than what's on stage. Because you can clean it up through a PA and make it sound completely different than what they really sound like.

People don't want to watch a sport where you see people fall down and somehow score above someone who goes clean.