I don't attribute an actor's great success to their own individual performance when it's something as collaborative as a movie.
Canadians send us great hockey players. You also send us wonderful performers, from the beginning, with Mary Pickford.
Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.
When I was on the ice, in the lights, with the music and the motion, there was a certain kind of flirtation that gave great energy and expressiveness to my performance.
Everyone knows 'Smash' is about musical numbers, and everyone knows we have fantastic dance sequences and great performances.
I did 'Showtime at the Apollo' when I was 10, and it was the first time that I'd ever performed on TV, and it felt great.
If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.
Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.
Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that.
I tend to a lot of improvisational ranting, and that's fun. For me, stand-up has been, performance-wise, a really good outlet.
I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Endorsements are a reward for good performance on the field, and the commitments made after signing them need to be done.
The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.
When you're young, you don't think about your career or your future - you perform because you love it.
The role of an orchestra in the 21st century isn't just playing, it's about developing future audiences and performers.
Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.
The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.
For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.
I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.
