Quotes About Performance

'As You Like It' was the first Shakespeare production I ever did.

I'm all for big production - I love putting on shows.

No acting, no production, could take the place of that moment when you come out in the dark on to the stage and the drummer plays four beats on the hi-hat and then lights and music. It just takes your breath away. No words can do what music can.

Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.

If I weren't performing, there is a real chance that I would be a 'One Man, Two Guvnors' groupie. I think that production is masterful in every way.

When you get into a production, there are a lot of things you have to hit to make the show work - like my cues or a cue for another person or making sure you don't mess up the beat, and you can let all of that get in the way.

I don't know if I have a 'Greatest Album Ever.' I really liked 'The Blueprint' by Jay-Z. The production on that album was really great. 'All I Need' was the first song I used for walk-on music in 2002 for my second time ever on stage, so that means a lot to me.

I was a drama-class nerd. I did whatever school production we put on.

I think 'Rather Be' is an amazingly written pop song with incredible production.

If I ever see another Shakespeare production where somebody drives a Jeep on stage, I'm going to run screaming up the aisle.

Doing gigs is great, but when you come together for a production in the theatre, that is something I have a lot of respect for.

I was the understudy to the understudy in a year-two production of 'Big Chief Red Feather.' The boy who had the lead broke his arm, and then the understudy got chicken pox. And I loved it. I got to wear the most feathers in my headdress.

I'm a DJ, but I'm also a ridiculously high-grossing musician due to doing productions.

In graduate school, Aubrey Berg at the Cincinnati Conservatory gave me the chance to perform with the best in the country in Broadway caliber productions.

Even though I'm an actor, I've gone to productions where there has been someone whose work is known in film, and you can't take your eyes off them. It unbalances the production. Whether they're good or not, it doesn't matter.

This season, over eight productions, I am presenting four young tenors.

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

People talk about me in 'Arcadia' and I think I was okay in it but I've given better performances in other productions that didn't have the same impact. But I knew 'Arcadia' was going to be an event and I wanted to be part of it.

I was in several Shakespeare in the Park productions in my younger years, but I've been busy with other things for a while.

In school productions, I was always villager No. 7. I was never at the front of the stage dancing and never had any lines.

Samuel Beckett's estate will not license productions of his plays that are not performed as written.

I want to become an actor whose productions will get people to say, 'there are lives like that,' when they watch me, and I want to become a singer who can tell people's stories.

Having a constant productive anxiety doesn't mean that people are miserable and wailing but that people know they will be held accountable if things do not go right.

I hate it, but a popout is the same as a strikeout. It's a matter of productive at-bats, a matter of how you do it.