If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That firs

If you can see yourself doing anything else and being happy, by all means, go and do it. But if you cannot, if you cannot see yourself doing

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

Giving voice to characters that have no other voice - that’s the great worth of what we do.

I believe in fairy tales. They are the basis of all our performance of storytelling and film-making - when we twist the real events of the w

The on-stage Gracie may look poised, but the real Gracie is shy, a little self-conscious, and, before every performance of my life, panicky.

In a live performance, it's a collaboration with the audience; you ride the ebb and flow of the crowd's energy. On television, you d

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

Goals on the road to achievement cannot be achieved without discipline and consistency.

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at t

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

f you live in the past that’s depression, and if you live in the future that’s anxiety. So you have no choice but to live in the present.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care - that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have

I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it’s there and then it’s gone.

A live performance is the same no matter what genre it is. Wrestling, rock’n’roll, hosting, acting - it’s the same thing.

If all the circumstances of acting are made too easy, then there’s no grain of sand to make the pearl.

I believe so much in the power of performance I don’t want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on thei

“May the Force be with you” is charming but it’s not important. What’s important is that you become the Force – for yourself and perhaps fo

People ask, “What’s the best role you’ve ever played?” The next one.

Dance every performance as if it were your last.