Quotes About Performance

My tendency is to be quiet and to stay focused and in character. Not the entire time, but certainly to stay focused while I'm on set.

When comics are in the room, people have a tendency to try to make them laugh. That doesn't really make you funnier. It makes you a comic's comic, but you aren't going to get a fan base doing that.

I don't know why, but it seems to be a common story for actors and comedians to have a tendency to be bad students and have difficulty focusing on things.

Big Show has a lot of monster tendencies.

A lot of what I do is try to watch tape and understand how guys come out of breaks - what their footwork looks like, or how they look at the top of a pass route. Guys have tendencies. I try to understand what they do, which allows me to be successful.

The point is that I am such a big fan of Puccini and that Butterfly is the most difficult and complete role that you can imagine. Just to sing it with a good voice is not enough: it asks tears from your soul. I am very emotional on stage, and the music is so tender that I suffer for real when I am singing it. So I cannot do many performances.

I love karaoke - I usually do Blondie's 'Heart Of Glass,' or 'Try A Little Tenderness.'

I would rather play a club show, just because it tends to make a much livelier show. You can connect with people when it's a smaller crowd.

Modern football tends to bring out the narcissism of those who sit on the bench.

As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

There tends to be this hierarchy of film and television, and theater is somewhere else in its own milieu. However, as actors, yes, we love to do theater because it's our story. Nobody can edit it, the curtain goes up, and it's ours for two hours or three, or whatever. And we tell it.

What you find with singers, no matter where they're from, if they have any kind of an accent, the accent tends to disappear when they sing.

Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you.

I do mostly comedy, and it tends to be a subtler comedy. But I think that probably lends itself well to commercials.

People comment on the way that I phrase. And in my 20s, I realized, my phrasing is jazz phrasing. I don't comply strictly with musical theater phrasing. Musical theater tends to be very one and three, and jazz is definitely two and four.

A lot of times when I'm performing a song, it tends to take me back to where I was psychologically as the lyric was being written.

Doing the acoustic at Carnegie is basically advised because electric music tends to get, let's just say, acoustically unsound.

In India, the wicket tends to get a bit slower once the ball gets old, but in England, it's pretty much the same whether it's new ball or old ball.

I feel like what I have learned in my career in racing is that anytime you are happy off the race track it tends to show up on the race track.

Most peoples work ethnic tends to be OK, but not fantastic.

Guys that are playing in the last year of their contracts are playing for their livelihood and that tends to come off as selfish.

It is all about the kind of experience you garner over the years, which tends to make a difference in the way you play at the top level.

Heavy food tends to make you lethargic and can interfere with your whole acting process!

Everyone tends to measure people on points and shots and not the all-around game.