We always had chocolates and my mother was careful to make sure they were unwrapped in advance so the paper wouldn't rustle in the middle of a performance.

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

I got the performance gene.

I don't really have any opinion about my performance in 'Big Momma's House.'

Performance art is the ultimate in creativity. Since it has so many possibilities at creativity, it's essence tends to become creativity.

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 first minute is crucial.

I think that's how any actor would make their performance convincing: by bringing an element of themselves into the character.

I'm always performing. I'm always hustling.

The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance.

Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.

I love performance, but I'm quite happy making videos as well, and I'm inordinately happy writing songs.

Ben Stiller, who I love and who is a friend and is such an incredible actor - he's hilarious, obviously, but I thought his performance in 'Greenberg' was extraordinary.

When I get back with band, the lights, and the whole production, that's me with the full artillery. A quick radio performance keeps me sharp for the big show.

I think that my performances with Led Zeppelin got better with each performance and I think that our performances as Led Zeppelin Experience have also gotten better with each show.

I have a degree in vocal performance, I'm a classically trained singer, and I studied musical theatre.

I persist in performing.

You hear different things from different people, and they're all valid: they're all valuable. I think that's what comprises a performance is all those ideas.

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

It doesn't matter if it's preseason or a scrimmage. I'm trying to have a dominant performance, whether it's preseason first series or whenever I get out there.

As a performer, we look for applause.