Quotes About Performance

Rock n' roll is a participatory sport.

I would love to act in films if people think I am right for a particular role.

I read the script and decide if a particular character looks fun to play. I look for complexity and a sense of humor. Those are crucial, real things to life.

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

I think doing more live stuff's made us feel a certain way about that particular point. I quite like small clubs. I don't really like playing in big clubs, and I think I'm really into the idea of a few people being together.

I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.

Action comedy, if you can get it right, it is, for me, a particularly brilliant genre. It really is.

As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

I went along to the audition and I had one page of lines, and I didn't think it went particularly well.

Cast parties are a lot of fun!

I'm the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I'm also available for children's parties and bar mitzvahs.

I did magic at children's parties when I was a kid.

I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.

You know, being an entertainer is partly being on the road, and a lot of your songs come from the road.

So the better my partner or my opposition, however you like to think about it, the better my game.

I have to visualise my jokes, live my jokes, feel the audience because every audience is different. It's like having a different dancing partner every night.

We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.

Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.

I am excited to partner with Under Armour to bring game-changing sleepwear, with the same bioceramics technology I use, to athletes all around the world.

If the Numerai fund performs well, that should lead to more assets under management, which should lead to more revenue for Numerai's general partner, which should lead to higher payouts for the data scientists, which implies a higher Numeraire valuation.

There's no better gift to an actor than when you walk into an audition, and the casting director is your partner.

OM was really sort of at the cutting edge. They have the best quality, the highest performance, the longest list of technology measurements you can gather - so we felt like they were the right partner for us.

Not only is my husband the most encouraging partner, he is more demanding than me when it comes to films, wanting me to do better roles.