Quotes About Performance

Prancing around on stage is not the entire purpose of my life.

I've wanted to perform my entire life. I found a paper I wrote in kindergarten class about what I wanted to be when I grew up - and I wrote 'a famous singer!'

I've tried to become a singer with the guitar and not let any technological licks run my life. Just write the licks and play them as best as I can as a part rather than ad libbing.

Being onstage is everything thats good about life.

I don't bring my life into a character at all.

Life is a game in which the player must appear ridiculous.

Just play with sincerity, give the performance of your life with everything you've got.

Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life.

There is a guilty pleasure in being rude and knowing that it's acting rather than you. But you get the same release as if you were being rude in life.

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.

The theater is where I belonged; I simply wanted to be an actress my whole life.

I always wish life could be a musical. One person just says 5, 6, 7, 8.

I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and school and started singing with his band when I was seven. So I've been singing all my life.

Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.

My only goal is to stay focused on my craft and make sure my life is as sharp as it can be to attack any character that is given to me.

In the life of a singer, it's not all triumphs and happy memories; there are days you have to go out there when it's the last thing you feel like doing.

Our whole life is like a play.

I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.

I will not do festivals. The thought of an audience that big frightens the life out of me.

My life is a performance for which I was never given any chance to rehearse.

I think if actors don't think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can't do comedy.

What I do is I come in the morning and get involved in the character, but I'm always very pleased to leave it at night and have my life.

As a performer, much of my life has been spent in the spotlight. I know how important appearance can be to teens, especially the impact it can have on the way you feel about yourself.

Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.