Quotes About Performance

51st State was one that I loved doing because the character was so out there, and in a way I was sad to leave the character behind. I'm afraid I could never be that cool in real life!

As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I'm at home, I want a peaceful life.

Is this the Olympics or One Life to Live?

Some of Jimmy Stewart's performance in 'It's A Wonderful Life' is some of the most disturbing performance he ever did, when he falls apart and when he breaks down.

I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.

As an actor, you live a little bit of a cloistered life. It's a lonely life. You oddly, strangely find yourself all alone, quite often, with a lot of time to think.

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In other words, when I go to the office, I lie down, dream, and become 'someone else.' That's my job.

Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

It's a cliché - but true - that life is not a dress rehearsal. You get to do it once, so do it well.

My stand-up is more like how I am in real life. I don't really do a character thing in stand-up. It's just a bunch of sentences that are supposed to be funny.

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.

I've sung other people's music all my life.

I'm dedicated to bringing to life what the author is trying to portray. I try to make the producers cry and the crew laugh.

So much of a stand-up's life is doing live radio and having to be funny and quick on the spot with these strangers, and sort of surgical in terms of how funny I can be in three minutes.

Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city.

Performing is one thing, and day-to-day stuff - like the way you talk to people - is totally different. If I acted like I did onstage in normal life, everyone would probably hate me.

She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.

I've never been onstage in my life.

I've been judged my whole life. People always expected amazing things from me.

I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.

There is a big difference between what I do onstage and what I do in my private life. I don't put my living room on magazine pages.

I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.