Joshua Sasse Quotes

I have to control my mouth - and that's hard enough - and then I have to manipulate the puppet and make it look real - like, make its interactions look real. And then I have to sing at the same time, and I have to have my facial expressions reacting to the puppet... So it's a lot going on, and I have to focus on every single thing at the same time.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

I would be a horrible lip-syncher. I would only ever sing live - that's why people come and see the show. It's not the easiest thing in the world to sing and dance at the same time, which is why I'm grateful to be able to do both.

Puppets interacting with other puppets is super complicated. You're juggling ten balls instead of three.

I am the man who stands on the stage spinning plates on the top of poles. Every now and then the PM gives me another plate and I have to keep that going as well.

I really struggle to fight and say lines at the same time. It's hard.

There were a couple of years where I was skating and acting at the same time.

Theater is a physical activity as much as anything. It's harder for me to learn the lines than it was 30 years ago. At the same time, I'll never quit working in the theater - until I can't memorize two lines back to back.

You know the circus performer who spins the plates in the air you know, and he'll spin six or seven plates in the air? Acting sometimes is kind of that guy spinning all those plates in the air but in your head and in your body.

To me, drum soloing is like doing a marathon and solving equations at the same time.

You can't work on 15 problems at the same time.

I'm not the kind of person who can do a lot of things at the same time.

Over the years, I have perfected the art of dancing and photographing at the same time: it's a great double act. If you're dancing, you are joining in. If you stand there rigid, you are not in the flow of things.

The only thing I wasn't prepared for was being everywhere all at the same time.

I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.

I'm a pretty decent tap dancer. I enjoy all types of dancing, actually.

Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff.

This is my theater. This is where I can sing and act out a play and do sit-ups at the same time.

Part of the joy of dancing is conversation. Trouble is, some men can't talk and dance at the same time.

I've got to have 25 balls in the air at the same time.

It's like being an athlete; you get into a certain shape where you really have the right wind, because it's all to do with breath. Because singing and dancing at the same time is not easy!

To do a musical takes a tremendous amount of energy because you have to act and sing at the same time. And everything has to be precise. Because you can't forget the lyrics because the band keeps playing, you know, and you're under a certain amount of pressure.

You have to really concentrate on piano or acting. You can't do both.

It's just about being an entertainer; it's about having all those tools over the years to do all sorts: films, musicals, playing a bit of piano, running a quiz show - it just becomes part of the job.

I respect Lady Gaga's work as an artist and as a fellow fashion icon. She is a very talented performer, playing the piano, singing live, and dancing, too.