Performance Limitation Quotes

No, I can't do rap music!

You can only be as good as your audience. Sometimes you can be as bad as your audience, but you have to remember you can never be better than them.

A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no longer respond as you would wish. After all, I choreographed for myself. I never choreographed what I could not do. I changed steps in Medea and other ballets to accommodate the change. But I knew. And it haunted me. I only wanted to dance.

Comedians have a tendency to have a limited range, they tend to do one thing and do it very well, but it's limited.

I've seen really, really talented teams that don't care about each other and are average, maybe above average is about as good as you're going to get.

Frank Sobotka in 'The Wire' on HBO was one of the greatest characters I've ever played. They cut his throat at the end of that season. There's something about creative coupling that seems to go with great characters, and the fact that you can never play them again once you're done.

Our number one opponents are not Liverpool, Arsenal or Manchester United. It is ourselves at Chelsea.

Talk about a foot injury, you can't release how you want to, you can't come out of your breaks how you want to.

No actor has complete freedom.

The more you understand me, the less characters I can play.

One of the dumber things my manager said was, Stick to the melody. But I can't.

You cannot always run at your best.

For me, I've always told myself, 'I can only do me in the ring.' When I go out there and perform, I can only do what Sasha Banks can do.

I'd love to do a Broadway show, but I can't because of the style I sing.

A bad song, the three best singers in the world cannot save it, and that's the bottom line.

If an actor or actress is recognizable, that changes our perception of them. Sometimes you can play against type, or you can just repeat what they've already done. It can be an obstacle; it's a very fine line.

I've played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice.

I don't think tongue cancer is the best cancer for an actor.

When Dee Dee would start singing, he would stop playing the guitar, because he couldn't sing and play at the same time.

You have to feel free enough to do what your body is telling you to do. Sometimes, though, the pressure of winning and the fear of defeat limit your performance.

There's so much more power, so you're short-shifting all the way down into fifth, sixth, seventh before you can get the full throttle. But great fun otherwise.

The equipment you've got really dictates what you're going to do. When I started touring, there were no monitors, so I had to take the sound from the hall, and of course it was on a delay, so I would sing, and then I would hear it back, but later. It was very weird.

I can't play guitar if I blow my arm out.

It's sometimes impossible to fit in all the music we want to fit in, in an hour and 45 minute show.