As an athlete, confidence makes me more competitive and helps me perform better.
For me, the most effective cabaret evenings have been some of the most personal ones, where the performer is comfortable enough to simply be themselves.
I think that standup has always been an acquired taste and there was always only a handful of performers that were really inspired.
I was admired by all these hippies, and it was wonderful playing at Monterey and Woodstock, performing for half a million people.
We call ourselves comedy writer-performers, and that encompasses everything, and I certainly have a very open mind about it.
There are few performers who would have had the audacity to even bring up the fact that they had been poorly reviewed.
I am the kind of person that wants to get up in front of crowds of strangers and perform monologues. To each their own.
A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll.
But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.
Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?
I always wanted to perform in some capacity since I was a kid - I was a ballerina, then a singer before acting.
The jobs I enjoy most are the ones where I never feel like I'm performing. I'm just feeling things.
I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.
I remember I had a boyfriend a long time ago who said, 'You need to change your name; you sound like a circus performer.'
I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.
These performers that go on about their technique and craft - oh, puleeze! How boring! I don't know what 'technique' means. But I do know what experience is.
Actors are part of a certain percentage of people on this planet who have an emotional vocabulary as a primary experience. It's as if their life is experienced emotionally and then that is translated intellectually or conceptually into the performanc...
With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living, breathing entity from the soul.
Food really is fuel - and hydration as well - but for athletic activity, you really got to take it seriously, or else it can negatively impact your performance.
