Performance Goal Quotes

Broadway was always sort of my trajectory before I found film and television - that would be really tremendous.

I am a professional actor, and I don't go about moralizing about what the character does. Otherwise, seriously, why be an actor? You're not making some kind of social statement. That's not what actors do.

I just want people to leave a show and go, 'That was the most rockin' show I've ever seen.' I hope people can just roll with me a little bit - you know?

Truthfully, this is how I approach my workout: I want to be the best athlete I can possibly be. If I can out-perform some of the better athletes then I'm happy. When I look at the NFL or the NBA, these guys look how I want to look - it's useable, functional muscle.

I'm not an artist that vents through my music. I don't do it to relieve stress. I do it for the purpose of entertaining.

My focus in 2010 was on just running fast races. My focus in 2011 was for winning at the World Championships. This year has been a combination of the two so we'll see what kind of time it brings.

I liked hip-hop, wanted to do rap, and wanted to stand on a large stage. If you look at it in another angle... it's something that I chose.

Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.

Everyone wants to perform at Wembley Arena. It's a mecca.

No one comes to my shows so they'll feel safe and comfortable.

We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don't play Madison Square Garden for this album.

I'm going to play at the highest I can, the best I can every night. Wherever that lands me, that's where it lands me.

What we need to make sure we do as a team is build the quickest car on the grid - if we have the quickest car, we can do it!

Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.

Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free.

I want to prove I'm a top-15 player, possibly top 10.

Without the laughs, the audience wouldn't be there at all, so in that sense, yes, I am a comedian.

My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

I believe I can hit the 20 goals a season mark.

The job of an artist is to entertain and not get involved with politics. We give the people in the countries we are visiting a good show - that's the purpose of an entertainer.

As soon as I started writing the first batch, I had a vision. I saw me on stage playing a certain type of music. I want to take these blues melodies over aggressive guitars. I heard the sound I wanted to make. I knew what I wanted to do. It wasn't ever there before.

I know everyone has Olympic dreams, but if you really think about it, you just don't want to go to the Olympics. You want to be a gold medalist at the Olympic Games.

I look at whatever the finish line is for the character and then kind of act backwards from that and play him in such a way so that that finish line is more rewarding.

Our job is to be performers and give everybody a great night where they can forget about their problems and the world's problems, because they're always going to be there. They were there since the beginning, and they're going to be there until the end.