Quotes About Performance

I want to do the right thing and also to enjoy myself on the pitch.

I feel I can channelise my aggression to the right thing and be a good bowler, a world class bowler.

You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff.

Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.

So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.

Aerosmith went on The Simpsons and they had fun.

For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let the band go, in my heart. However, Roger Daltrey had other ideas. He would not let go.

What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

We saw The Who on New Year's Eve in 1975.

I remember seeing The Who at the Top Hat.

Probably for drums, a guy I really enjoyed watching is Simon Phillips. I've seen him play with The Who and with Pete Townshend on his own - a really great drummer.

The theater is magical and addictive.

In theater, blood is ketchup; in performance, everything's real.

From day one, musical theater was my bread and butter.

Now in my theater training I showed no aptitude at all.

My theater has always been a political battle on the stage.

Well, first of all I'll say that I come alive best in theater.

I grew up doing musical theater.

There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge.

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

My first love was singing. It was the first thing that really felt like it was a part of me. It's just in my blood. And acting came sort of out of singing because I did a lot of musical theater.