Quotes About Performance

The taller you are, the bigger your serve.

The minute you step onstage, you get eight feet taller.

I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical.

Tame Impala has two lives. One is the album, which is like a producer, and the other life is like a band: more of a live incarnation where we're basically a covers band for the albums that I produce.

Cirque du Soleil distinguished itself by being a circus with no animals. Before then, circus was partly about showing how man can tame other species.

It's largely a misconception that Tame Impala is a band. We play as a band on stage, but it's really not how it is at all on the album. The album is just me.

I think criticism is often so pallid, so tame. I wish it were more performative.

I felt like in Tampa Bay a lot of people thought we were overachieving.

Sometimes, you go down to Florida and Tampa and you get a couple days off, you can get complacent.

When we had a great defense at Tampa Bay, we always measured our defenses against the best quarterbacks.

My legs are ice skaters' legs. No tan in sight.

Theatre is such a joy because it's a group effort. Everyone has to move in tandem. It was lovely to be able to carry that over into 'Barry.'

The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it.

I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.

I want people to see a real person on the ice. I want to seem tangible, hard-working, passionate about my skating, not just going out and doing something I've rehearsed a million times.

I've done 'Yo Gabba Gabba!' I've done... oh, it's not called 'Rapunzel' anymore. 'Tangled', that's it. Those are both huge.

A while ago, I got a chance to learn tango for a performance in my college.

'Tango' is very much an ensemble piece and I was devastated when I read the script.

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.

It's really hard to be all serious in the tango and not break into laughter.

When you buy me, you are buying a Ferrari. If you drive a Ferrari, you put premium petrol in the tank, you hit the motorway, and you step on the gas.

Tank you veddy much.

When we go out there, I want to be the act that, no matter who's in that crowd, they've never seen a better act than me. I'm gonna empty the tank.

Coming out in a bedazzled tank top and silver jeans and singing 'Superstar' with a 36-piece band and 28 dancers around me is one of the dopest things I've ever had the opportunity to do.