Quotes About Performance

There's nothing more exciting than that conversation you have with a live audience. It's the best feeling in the world.

You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can.

I'm not here just to walk two rounds or four rounds and just show up. I want to be able to be competitive, and I truly believe I can still be competitive when I'm playing well and feeling good.

Sometimes things get hard, especially if you are not having a great game or not feeling good within your cricket.

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.

Acting ceases to be work because I enjoy it. But it feels like working when I do bad work, especially when I know it is bad.

When I have the ball at my feet, I'm in different world.

I can't be funny if my feet don't feel right.

Watching and learning from the great Josette Bushell-Mingo, who was playing Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the time, and then to return to the same stage six months later playing a lead role, was incredible - I fell in love with the poetry and the breadth of the language so much that I didn't want it to end.

I feel like I fell short in Rio.

Wire-walking in performance is one thing - I never fell, of course. If I had, I wouldn't be here talking about it.

I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew that this was what I wanted to do.

When I was in the ring, you really saw the best of me. Outside the ring, I was really some terrible fellow.

If you empathize with your fellow humans on stage, you can't help but do so offstage as well.

I felt something like a sense of achievement while acting.

I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.

For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.

If you look at the charts, there's not a lot of male artists and for whatever reason, female artists sell a lot more records and get played a lot more on the radio.

I like shows where the female characters are as funny as the male characters, not just commenting on how funny the male characters are.

I did play the guitar and sing; I was in a band called The Estrogens: three females and one very brave guy.

I think I was aware when I started doing stand-up, especially on my own, that, yeah, I'm getting up on stage, and I'm a woman, and I dress in a sort of typically feminine fashion.

I think dancing was a way of showing your femininity and, through the years, your strength, because it's a male-dominated industry.