Quotes About Performance

Theatre is my first love.

Theatre was and will always be my first love.

Theatre is my first love, simply because I started out with theatre.

My first love was being a dancer.

Acting is my first love.

I was connected to the theater, it was my first love, where my career was focused, on interesting ways to tell stories.

I do comedy shows. I make fun of myself, first of all.

What's really important is the people, first of all. I like working with people who are kind, above all else. I don't really want to work with someone who will manipulate me. The idea that you must treat actors a certain way in order to get a performance out of them kind of disturbs me, and it's disregarding what we do. Our job is to do our job.

I'm very comfortable singing myself, first of all. Secondly, there's a certain disconnect when you write the song and you have someone else sing it for you. And it's kind of like a fakeness about it.

First of all, you have to work to prove how good you are.

I play to win games, first of all.

I am the first one to believe that if a player is happy in what he is doing he performs much more.

I did my first play around four or five. I can't remember the first one, but I did 'Annie' when I was five.

I've always wanted to be the first one to laugh at me. I didn't want to get up on stage and start doing something and have someone say, 'Are you serious? Do you think that's good?'

If I didn't play well, Dad was the first one to tell me where I'd gone wrong and give great advice.

What drew me to acting in the first place was disguise.

So what's so enticing about doing a play is that you get to do that thing that got you into acting in the first place... There's a real attraction to being able to play, to just play. And that's something that theater affords you.

At the end of the season, the important thing is to be in first place. It doesn't matter if you score 15 or 20.

There's a part of me that always has the little bit of the sassy sexiness in her. That's probably why I ended up with The Pussycat Dolls in the first place.

Any team that lets in 50 goals should never be in second position in the first place.

It was the first time that I was on Broadway, and I got to run as fast as I could to keep up. And I loved it!

I know there are people, if I go into a market or a city for the first time, there are people that are there that just want to see the famous person, or the guy from 'Dumb and Dumber' or whatever movie they liked. And that's fine, it gets them in the door, but then it's my job to give them something different.

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

I take to acting like a fish to water.