Quotes About Performance

It's always interesting - how do you actually convey thought through song? We're used to the convention on stage. In film, we used to be used to it, and now sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. You need to be fresh and really look at the material.

Everybody's got their ways of doing things and for me I've got to stay fresh, fly and flashy. So I'm going to make sure I'm fresh, fly and flashy in the ring too.

I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.

Even though I've been doing it for so long, I still feel fresh. Even when I walk out on stage, I still feel pretty much the same as I've always felt.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

My dancing is Hawaiian-inspired but I also get a little fresh when it comes to my faster songs.

I did my fist show, 'Godspell', in my freshman year of high school.

I've been under the lights since my freshman year of high school.

There is a certain amount of freshness and credibility that new actors bring to any movie.

I played with a band in Austin when I was doing 'Friday Night Lights.' It was a blast.

It's easy for me to play bad guys because it's a very linear acting. Bad guys aren't empathetic. Being a bad guy is great because you're not friendly and you don't have to do much with your face.

I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.

One thing when I started playing in the league, I saw that a lot of guys are friendly. It's OK to be friendly, especially off the court. But on the court, I want to dominate.

There is a different sort of edge when you come up against England. Even when it's a friendly game you still get that fear in you that if you get beat it won't be good but if you win it will be the best thing going.

It's not always friendly outside the ropes at the Ryder Cup.

You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable.

Other than friends and family, my favorite things are New York and stand-up. I love doing comedy in New York - I can do way more stand-up here than in Los Angeles.

I want my friends and family to see me play.

I play roles that frighten me as an actor.

I think all actors get scared because we're frightened to disappoint.

Actors are frightened little children.

I'm too frightened to go on 'Celebrity Mastermind.' You really are shown up. Just you and a chair - there's no way out.

If you get asked to play a part that makes you feel frightened, then you have to do it. 'Medea' is the opportunity of a lifetime.

It's frightening to be facing an audience. There is always the fear of what they think of you, what they are saying about you.