Performance Quotes

I’d say that, first and foremost, I’m a performer; I started performing when I was four years old, and being on stage from a young age set me up.

Our righteousness doesn’t depend on our present performance but on Jesus’ finished performance.

Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.

Reading is performance. The reader–the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk–performs the work.

I was very vocal about how I wanted to be portrayed on the show, and how I wanted the stage setup to be.

I’m the type who’d rather not work than work on something I’m not into. I’ve done that a couple of times, and I feel like I can totally see it in my performance.

The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.

My fantasy had always been making a music video and performing with music that I had created.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.