Quotes About Performance

As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.

It's a part of most actors to want to be in an animated feature; to extend the legacy of your career.

Doing ensembles and shows is one thing, but being able to front a feature is totally different. You can be a great actor, and supertalented, but there's something about carrying a feature that's unique.

I know what it means to have a leading part, and I know what it means to have a featured part.

I think everyone is fairly fed up with mildly dysfunctional people being put under pressure and then behaving abysmally.

I worked in the World Wrestling Federation for three years.

I did shows for a while without a rider, actually, because nobody tells you that it comes out of your fee.

In 1996, I was in was in an acoustic kind of rock band, we were called Feeble. We were just playing locally.

I just feed off the energy of the audience.

Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.

I'm really only happy when I'm on stage. I just feed off the energy of the audience. That's what I'm all about - people and laughter.

I have worked alone and with a cast and enjoy the process both ways. There is more back-and-forth with a full cast, and you can feed off the other actors' performance.

In the same way that I'm open when I speak, I'm that open on stage. I feed off the energy of the audience, too, so they're feeling what I'm feeling.

With every performance I just feel more energized somehow. Like, this is how I exercise! This is how I feed my ego, by playing this loud rock music.

I feed off the audience a lot, their energy.

It's about the audience - if they laugh and clap, you feed off that, and if they don't, you doubt everything you've ever done.

Athletics is not like cricket; we feed on the competition and that makes us bring out the best in us.

When someone's playing you man-to-man coverage, they're basically saying that guy's better than you. So that's why a lot of receivers feed off of that.

The audience is so important. Because there's something that I might think is super funny, but if it's just not getting the feedback, I have to let it go.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

Of course, you get exhausted. You want to pass out. I came close a couple of times. But you're filled with something, that feedback that comes from the audience.

It's just trying to do the best job I can in these opportunities that I get to show what I can do, be consistent, have good feedback, be fast, at the same time not make mistakes.

Obviously, it's disappointing when you put on a shirt and get negative feedback, but at the same time, it's what the fans want to see; they want to see you perform well.

The only real satisfaction is live performances. That's when you can actually get some feedback from what you're doing. You get that artist-to-audience chemistry. I love it!