Quotes About Performance

It's nice to get the feedback from a theater audience. It's a gas.

You always have to play it safe, no matter who you're fighting. I don't fight any easy guys. I haven't maybe ever in the UFC. To me, you've always got to be safe. But I don't want to have my foot on the brake at all. My foot is going to be on the gas, and I'm going to be smart at everything.

When the gate drops, it's time to try and execute the best you can.

I want to be an impact player and come out of the gates fast.

I gauge if I can create a different a woman. But sometimes, you feel the character isn't given enough space to perform.

I'm most looking forward to bowling at the international players - it will be a gauge to see where I'm at and if I'm ready for international cricket.

Being an actor, I've thought about being in the male gaze.

Our 'Top Gear' characters are based on our own characters, if exaggerated and cartoonified. We try not to be completely different to who we are, because you couldn't carry it off in the long run.

The blue gear with the red dinosaur is special to me because that's the first gear I wore in NXT.

Gear not working on a live show - that is rough.

When I was young, a lot of the guys could sell themselves to me on the way to the ring with the way they acted and their mannerisms. Guys like Shawn Michaels, who I loved growing up. They were just loud. They didn't even need to say a word because they came out and had this crazy ring gear on.

The Champions League is a very special one, as everyone switches one gear up.

As an actor, you tend to get excited about scenes that are weighty or meaty because you get to shift gears in a way that's quite interesting.

I'm a geeky actor, in the way that I like the craft of acting.

Drag is literally so ancient that it predates modern understanding of gender, of transness, of queerness. Drag predates modern ideas of gender, of theater at all. Drag predates the word 'drag' itself.

Sexuality and gender don't change anyone's performance on the court.

My own experience of gender has been about a lot of fluidity. In drag, I like to combine aspects of masculinity and femininity and rewrite the rules for those.

I'd like to think that the door is always open for just the best actor for the role, you know? Race or gender shouldn't have anything to do with it, unless the character or story is focused on that for some particular reason.

The beautiful thing about stand-up advice is that it applies to anybody, any gender, any race, any age. The best thing you can do - everybody will tell you - is get on stage as much as you can. I would add to that: get on stage as much as you can - with the people you admire.

I love performing and entertaining, but what I want to really share is a stronger voice to the people and empower women to show that women and girls can do anything. Don't ever let your gender stop you from chasing dreams.

While dressing up as Courtney is a performance, there is a part of me that is expressing my gender in feminine and masculine ways.

I got the performance gene.

And I got to play lead with Gene Barry - a fellow who has never, ever been hard on the eyes!

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.