Quotes About Performance

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'

I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.

I never wrote a joke in my life. I just get on stage and let it flow.

Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.

As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of the year.

I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.

I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath.

I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor. And my responsibility with that gift is to do the best job possible and to re-create real life.

I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

Get out on the stage of life.

I'm getting good offers, as good as ever sometimes. I just finished a thing with Billy Bob Thornton that was the most unique part I've ever played in my life, in the most unique project.

I can't give a decent toast to save my life.

I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's tomorrow night.

A dancer's life is all about repetition.

Performing in a live theater is absolutely unbeatable. It is something I have done my entire life and have a gift, it seems, for sharing thoughts live.

When I sing, I always relive a part of my life.

I was always an actor, starting in middle school. I was in all the plays and all that. But dancing didn't come into my life until late into high school.

The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get.

An actor's life is like a series of - it's like the first day of school happening over and over again.

But now it's just another show, you leave em laughing when you go. And if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.

It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.

That's the thing I loved about drag queens, life was a constant movie; no matter how ridiculously things didn't match they would sacrifice everything for the pose, and I was definitely into the pose.

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

They were all dressed in their finest as though life really were some magical stage play in which every moment ought to be illuminated with its own bright spotlight.