Quotes About Performance

I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.

Doing Shakespeare certainly makes you a better actor.

Doing Shakespeare on stage with Kenneth Branagh, I don't think it gets better than that.

It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.

The only theatre I ever saw was Shakespeare.

I always ended up having the funny part in Shakespeare, but I really thought I'd be doing theater. That was my ambition for myself.

Anyone can play anyone in Shakespeare. I don't think there are limits.

Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?

There's so much stuff in America that is very shameful. It's stuff that I can't endorse, but I still perform there.

I've had a wonderful career and shared the stage with Vince Gill, who was my second love.

I would rather be responsible and accountable and help to reward the public shareholders going ahead.

When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.

At first it was kind of hard, because I had become used to just my phone screen in front of me. But sharing your songs with an audience is incredible.

Yes, sharing super-personal experiences is scary, but I can only get up on stage and perform it if I really connect with the music.

I've got to get on myself to be sharp, funny and loose.

We train so that every fight I look great, I look sharp, I'm in shape and I'm prepared for whatever is in front of me.

Playing 90 minutes, you're absolutely shattered afterwards.

On the road I don't shave until the evening before I go out on stage.

I don't like being back in the sheds, I prefer being out in the middle and just doing my thing.

I feel Hansa is an evergreen character which has been a sheer pleasure to perform.

Being No. 1 on any call sheet is difficult. Being No. 1 on an episodic, hour-long drama is really hard.

Part of the attraction to golf may be that it's just a score on the sheet and there's not much you can do about it.

A clean sheet is always nice but I'd rather win 2-1 than get a 0-0.

I love to have the pressure of having to win every game, love the pressure of keeping clean sheets every game, no matter if we're 5-0 or 6-0 up.