Quotes About Performance

I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.

There are no small parts; there are only small actors.

I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world!

Most parts that can be played by one actor can equally well be played by another, but not this.

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

I like to play different ranges. When you get really deeply involved in the emotional parts, I enjoy that just as much as the fun and laughter.

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

I've always wanted to play more comic parts.

DJ Khaled most definitely knows how to rock a party.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

I would be horrified to watch whatever I was doing on 'Party Of Five.' I'm sure I'm bad on it.

I feel like professional athletes are the ones that deserve to be tired. I'm just partying, and there's definitely physical exertion involved in that, but it also fuels you as you go.

The main thing is, I can't stay up late partying when I'm on tour. That's not good for my voice or my health in general.

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.

You're only as good as your last pass.

Sometimes I can help the team to score, to make the last pass or to get more chances and try to score. Maybe I can do this more often.

Lots of people think I'm telling porky pies when I say how nervous I get about singing. I was good at working out how music was put together, and I was good at being at the back, but if you asked me to sing up front, then I looked like I was going to pass out.

If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he does - otherwise it's like bringing Michael Jordan to your basketball team and telling him to just pass the ball and don't shoot.

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

I've done a few American accents. I've maybe passed a test. But I don't know if it makes things easier or not.

I was never one for the passenger seat. I have always wanted my level of entertainment and showmanship to be the same as a frontman.

I was playing Russell Long, the senator from Louisiana. I had 12 speech teachers watching me. All the other passengers on the airplane were speech teachers, and every time I got it wrong, one of the speech teachers would jump up and correct it.

Sometimes I hear fans say that 'you should play for the emblem on the shirt.' I play for myself because after two inaccurate passes the fans are already cursing you.