Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am.
Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.
I went to a Canadian college for performing arts and then I auditioned for Canadian Idol. That honestly was my golden ticket.
For one year I did go to Performing Arts School, and I had very weird friends.
While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver.
Most corporations have human-resources processes that involve discussions with your manager, performance evaluations, calibrations for performance and potential succession planning.
I sing because I love singing. I perform because I love performing. I write because I actually enjoy writing.
There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.
First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects.
I have been a performer for as long as I can remember. I performed in Sunday school and church plays.
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, [Cloquet thought,] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.
You know, the blond guy plays the good guy and I play the bad part, the bad guys. Which is a lot of fun. Playing the bad guy is great. And it's the whole British thing. You know, in so many films the bad guy is British. Gary Oldman makes a living doi...
A good interpreter can take a piece of bad music and make it sound pretty decent, while a bad interpreter can take good music and make it sound cheap. I can tell that some people have a bad taste, and unlike on the piano, they smear around a lot, tha...
Conrad "Con" Jarrett: [about Karen's suicide] I feel bad about this! I feel really, really bad about this! Just let me feel bad about this! Dr. Berger: Okay. I feel bad about it, too.
Bad manners does not mean they make bad company.
If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.
My dad was a movie star. Having that name was good and bad. People think it's a silver spoon. It's not.
Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
In my long innings, I have seen many sunrises and many sunsets; many good and bad times.
Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.
Through all the bad guys that I've played, they're justifiably bad - they have their reasons. It's been important to me.
