Quotes About Performance

The real revelation of a player's character is not in his social life but in how he plays. In my social life I can hide my real personality.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

I suffer so much in this life. That is what they [the audience] are feeling when I sing, that is why they cry. People who felt nothing in this life cannot sing.

If you're taking performance-enhancing drugs and you get caught, in my mind, you should be banned for life.

Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.

An insult comic is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.

I went to a Katy Perry concert, and I experienced pure bliss for the first time in my life.

In the theater you create a moment, but in that moment, there is a touch, a twinkle of eternity. And not just eternity, but community. . . . That connection is a sense of life for me.

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

I've never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.

The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.

If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.

Your rewards in life will be determined by what you do, how well you do it, and the difficulty of replacing you.

I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.

My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.

I throw dignity out the window, and just become a creature of the moment on the stage. I act like I'd never act in real life.

Art is spirituality in drag.

I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn off because it upsets me. I get comedy indigestion. I just hate anybody else being funny. That's my job.

I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up.

I wish we could see Hamilton.

Studies have shown that 94% of college professors think that they do above average work.