Quotes About Engagement

It's like, in movies where you talk to the audience 90 percent of the time, it's - you kind of want to stay away from that stuff. But, you know - but to write exposition brilliantly is hard.

It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.

I didn't really feel 100 percent comfortable until we started working on the 2004 election.

Every time you say yes to a film there's a certain percentage of your yes that has to do with the director, a certain percentage to do with the story, a certain percentage with the character, the location, etc.

A work of art doesn't exist outside the perception of the audience.

The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?

I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is important.

I'm trying to spend less time with the phone when the kids are awake in general. I need to get better about that. It's a perennial New Year's resolution.

It is very essential as an actor to be a perfectionist and have a knack for doing different roles over a period of time to keep their fans entertained.

I'm like, bursting. I should be working. I don't want to take a break. It's funny, on set, I don't have to go to the bathroom, I don't have anything wrong, I'm perfectly fine, so through-and-through. I'm not hungry. I'm literally not even in my own body.

As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.

Some artists I know, they would rather not see the audience or envision them. But for me, I'd rather see them. I feel like part of the reason I perform is to feel that connection. It's the reason I love it so much.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.

I like the fact that I'm involved in a career that gives me so many different mediums to perform in.

You perform for a different audience each night. People who don't understand just think that you go out there every night and do the same thing, but you don't - you have to find out who they are and give it to them.

When I met my wife, I was a working comic, so the first week we went out, she saw me perform, and it was very clear what I do.

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

My live performance, it just comes from feeling an energy and emotion from the crowd.

When it's a live performance, anything can happen.

There's nothing like live performance.