Quotes About Performance

I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.

I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.

I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

That's true, you don't want to let anybody down and here are millions of people who've been waiting for their favorite characters to be brought to life and you don't want to disappoint.

I can't think of a more natural experience in my entire life than playing with Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman again. I really learned how to play with them in terms of drumming.

I don't think you're human if you don't get nervous.

What's the classical moment that every actor or actress deals with? A tragic thing. They get that blank, faraway look in their eyes. But in life, it's not that way.

Cher wanted to be an entertainer more than I've seen anybody want to be an entertainer in my life.

There is a similarity between juggling and composing on the typewriter. The trick is, when you spill something, make it look like a part of the act.

That's pretty much why I went into show business because I wanted to have a guitar and sing unaccompanied, that was like my fantasy of the perfect life.

You've never in your life seen a horse run like this! He's all power - all beauty.

I have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three.

I can't remember a single year of my life when I haven't made a piece of theatre.

I once got hit with a taser at a concert and everyone thought I was dancing. Now I have to do that dance, at every show for the rest of my life, or admit that a taser can damage the Thom Yorke

Once I was playing and moving around and I fell right on my back. Just straight on my back. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life.

It's always great to play parts that are larger than life.

You don't even really get used to doing scenes where you have to kiss, or be particularly intimate, with another person who's not actually your lover in real life.

For me, singing was real life, not two plus two equals four.

Midge Ure: In Slik, there were just girls in the audience. In Ultravox, the boys started to come too, in mackintoshes and moustaches. There were always lots of men at Ultravox concerts.

There's only a fellow sawing a woman in half this week.' 'Keep a half for me.

As soon as students get a grade, the learning stops. We may not like it, but the research reviewed here shows that this is a relatively stable feature of how human minds work.

Singin' in the Rain was most excellent if you like movies where people burst into song and tap-dance. Which I do, though not as much as I like movies where people don't.

I'd never seen a guy my own age play the piano. It was like sex and musical theatre fused together.

The presentation of self in everyday life. This guy Goffman had the idea that in different situations, you perform yourself differently. Your character isn't static. It's an adaptation.