Quotes About Performance

Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.

If anything, you just let your racket talk - there's no reason for you to talk if your racket can.

What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.

With solo shows, you have complete control over the set list. If you feel like you want to do something different or do a new song, you can just work it in. You can talk to the audience or not talk to the audience. There's nothing that's set.

The people elected us to end the talk and to act decisively.

I can't talk about my singing. I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of?

You'll go down a dark road if you just dwell on every time you screw up. We play a very fickle position. If I make nine kicks out of 10, people are going to talk about the one I missed.

I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it's only acting. Please.

If you've ever been around a group of actors, you've noticed, no doubt, that they can talk of nothing else under the sun but acting. It's exactly the same way with baseball players. Your heart must be in your work.

I think you get in a situation where once you start hearing the boos and hearing the radio stations talk and people on the outside begin to bring your name up of being benched, then you begin to lose focus, and now your play begins to fall and you begin to focus on other things.

With roasting, you've really got to bring your A-game. I hate to admit it, but I probably think and obsess more about the roasts than my own series. Because there's so much attention focused on the roasts. It's like the 'Super Bowl' of comedy. Everybody is going to talk about it. Forever.

Talk is cheap; play the game.

Liberal talk on the radio doesn't perform well because it is not a sequestered to a niche - it's everywhere in the media universe. Conservative talk radio, on the other hand, performs well because the radio is the only place, besides Fox News, that people can go for right-sphere opinions.

I feel my shows are like a late-night talk show that we settle down and do every night.

The world that I would want to get into would be acting. In the beginning, I would do stuff as myself if I had the opportunity to host events - host, like, a talk show. Something like that, I think, would be super amazing.

I really enjoyed playing Vinny Vedecci, the Italian talk show host. He was the first character I ever came up with where I gave him a name and a way of dressing.

You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.

I get asked to do stupid things like panel shows and talk shows and things.

I'm not good on talk shows.

I get unreasonably nervous before talk shows.

I'm not good at entertainment. I don't give myself to all the interviews, game shows, or talk shows.

I never knew that I would be performing on talk shows with Sia.

I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

When you are a talkative and expressive person in real life, it definitely gets difficult to play someone who is so silent.