Quotes About Performance

I think the live show is a different kind of catharsis. It's an event. It's supposed to be entertaining. To keep myself entertained, I like to play a rock n' roll show. I still kind of feel like I'm a rock n' roll musician anyway.

I enjoy playing different kind of people.

That is the fun of being an actor. You play all different kinds of people.

I have been quite lucky as an actor to have managed to play different kinds of roles.

To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.

To me, it makes more sense to write different songs and to play different kinds of music and to find your own voice. But no matter what, get out and play for people. Get out and learn, and do everything that you can, you know?

I don't think I could compare myself to Macaulay Culkin, because we're pretty much two different kinds of actors.

I think, from a really early age, I just wanted to be an actress. And I ended up doing comedy because it was the thing that kind of, like, came out of my nature the most easily. But, I've always wanted to do as many different kinds of performances - whatever I could.

I'm happy I got to do different kinds of roles - romance, action, and even a satire in 'Bangistan.'

It's true you can end up as rich as Croesus but the thing I enjoy about acting is doing lots of different kinds of things.

Maleficent was always so elegant. She always was in control. And to play her was difficult. I worked on my voice a lot. She's bigger than me. She's on a different level of performance that I have never done.

Man, Ben Henderson, Donald Cerrone... these guys are a different level, man.

Players live a different life. They've been blessed. They live in a bubble and they live in a world where they get everything really. They've become film stars.

I feel like I play better when I'm calm. There is an inner peace I can tap into sometimes during my matches.

I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.

I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70.

I think the best dramatic actors know how to tap into their character's humor.

Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head.

I took tap classes growing up.

I saw music as a way to entertain people and take them away from their daily lives and put smiles on their faces, as opposed to what I see it being now, which is a way for me to actually communicate, and a way for me to tap into my subconscious.

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.

Before a show, I usually give myself two-and-a-half hours to get ready. I prepare my shoes first. New ballet pumps can sound like tap shoes. You have to take the noise out of them by hitting them against stone. It takes half an hour to do each pair, and I can go through three pairs in one night.

When I was 12, I was doing competitive jazz, tap and ballet in Michigan. The studio put the best dancers together, and I joined that. We always did really, really well in local competitions.

The Demon character is something I draw on occasion. It's something that requires a lot of focus to tap into and really requires the right situation for me to sort of draw on that darker side of my personality.