Performance History Quotes

Trust is a function of two things: character and competence. Character includes your integrity, your motive and your intent with people. Competence includes your capabilities, your skills, and your track record. Both are vital.

I've been playing live since I was in sixth grade.

I've been doing plays ever since school. There's never really been a stop to it.

When I first walked into 54 Below, I had this kind of deja vu experience and tried to imagine what this was like back in the day when I would come here at night after doing 'A Chorus Line.'

I have a relatively good track record.

I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.

I started acting in junior high. I was in 'Guys and Dolls.' I was Stanley Kowalski. In my head, before coming to Hollywood, I thought, 'I can play anything.'

I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.

I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.

I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.

I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.

I did standup comedy. I opened once for Jay Leno.

I did 'Othello' at the Oregon Shakes - I was at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for two and a half years. That's where my training is.

I loved being on stage. I was in elementary school when I started, so I couldn't say that it was about the building of characters.

I wasn't a trained Mickey Mouse club performer. I played in jazz clubs and restaurants.

I played for anybody and everybody from the time I started playing guitar, when I was 10 or 11.

I was in the original cast of 'Sunset Boulevard.' I played Betty. But I wasn't on the cast album.

I don't know other couples that work together a fraction as much as Nick and I do. We met in a play, and we've done TV and movies, and we just did 'Annapurna,' our off-Broadway show, and we've done theater together several times, so it's just a little bit of everything.

I've been acting my whole life, which people don't realize. I just haven't had the opportunities that I've had with my dancing.

Because I'd done 30 plays or so at Oxford, I thought that I was an actress anyway because that's what I was doing!

Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.

Our heritage as actors goes back thousands of years, and we have to feel as comfortable in the clothes, and the language of Sophocles as we do in our sneakers.

My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.