Quotes About Performance

I think hitting is more a mentality than a philosophy. A philosophy is somebody telling you the way they think it should be. Well, different people believe in different things. My thing is this: Be ready to hit.

I'm going to retire hopefully like Cary Grant did. I'll be on stage telling a story, everyone's going to applaud and laugh, and then I'll drop like a rock.

I'd much rather talk about guitar playing. I hate it when people ask me about my lyrics. I always feel like telling them to just go and read them.

Sitting next to Olivia Newton-John, I was like, 'Do not sing one song from Grease.' That's all I was telling my brain at all times: 'Do not sing Hopelessly Devoted. Don't do it.'

And Hackman had really choked up when he was telling it. It was very moving.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

For me, I just want to continue telling stories - whether it's musically or theatrically, this is what I love to do. So, I want to create more.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

I love the stuff that makes you laugh and cry. It kind of sucker-punches you a little bit. That's the thing that most interests me as a performer, in addition to telling the most captivating story.

I'm one of the boys, no better than the last second violinist. I'm just the lucky one to be standing in the center, telling them how to play.

I love being part of a company, and telling a story.

What I've been telling everyone that loves Carolina football is that we are going to put a team out there that, number one, is in good shape. We're going to be fit, we are going to be able to play the whole game and we're not going to poop out.

We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story.

When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth.

As far as rapping goes, as long as you are telling the truth and you have a good flow, then you win.

As an actor, you want to know if you're keeping a secret or telling the truth.

My job is to work at song writing and singing and telling the truth in song writing. My job is to be courageous enough to go on stage and tell the truth, the same truth that's gone into my song writing.

I'm just a guy entertaining people and telling the truth and teaching them science.

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

There's no better feeling than when I go outside and I see the faces of people who paid their money just to see me, that tells me the music is going where it's supposed to and that's encouraging.

Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.

I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.

Playing a rookie at quarterback tells the other players that you're giving up the season.

I just would like to keep singing. As soon as I'm not singing well, I hope that I know it, so that I can get off the stage and leave what I have done. I hope I'll know, and if I don't, I hope somebody tells me.