Quotes About Performance

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

You only live once. Life is a show

As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth.

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

I really feel there's no limitation on what this band can do in the studio or on the stage. That's an empowering feeling - that we can bring a song to life.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

In life, I'm most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.

Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.

Enjoying life is far superior to being graded on your performance in life.

I suppose is very cathartic to do a show to the masses and you get to make magic in a manner that you can't do in regular life, but I suppose that self esteem effect is one of the most powerful.

Life is rather like acting lessons while you are on stage giving a public performance!

Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.

I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have to ask people to help me in my other role.

One man in his time plays many parts.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

I realise few people get to live the life they always wanted, but I'm so neurotic, I don't really think about it. I'm too busy thinking, 'I hope I don't screw up my next scene.

Being stupid is not as frustrating as being brilliant for 5 seconds and then average for the rest of your life

Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

Television forces people to be larger than life. I would be too shy.

The boundary between real life and acting is hard to find.