Quotes About Performance

Sometimes we feel like life is like theater, really.

I think for a lot of people that are in performing arts, it's easy to fall into the trap of starting to confuse what's real life and what's not, because to your body it's all real.

Bridal is very much a performance - it is the one grand event in every woman's life.

One second you're having the time of your life in front of all these people, and then you come backstage to the exact opposite - there's only lukewarm carrots back there.

As an actor, you are aware of how a role can seep into your real life.

I like it when I'm on the stage, but honestly, I would be very happy if I could cut it off, just enjoy my life when I wasn't performing.

There's only, I think, in life, three things that I do pretty well: Performing, I still can field ground balls, and I make nice kids.

I think being individual in the show business is what gives you life and longevity.

Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.

In every other aspect of their life, we have entertainment that is crafted almost to an individual. So they expect that from stand-up as well.

I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.

My life is a movie set. These people, they all think this is real, but it's not.

Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.

The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.

For me, once I count the band in, and I delve deep into my song, I feel a certain sort of integrity and integration that I rarely find in my daily life.

It's a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it - the full life of that is why I became a writer.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you-you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.

I always feel like I'm in the best shape of my life for every fight I'm in.

I've scammed so many people throughout my whole life who never learned my true identity until I started acting.

There's theater in life, obviously, and there's life in theater.

It's a dream come true to have someone else portray me. Because I've been living this life for a long time, and I'm over myself.

It's a pleasure to play my sister because everything I've accused her of my whole life, I can now re-enact before her eyes.

I've played a lot of fathers in my life, and it seems that my kids are getting older and older in films, and I'm always surprised at how good they are.