Unconventional Performance Quotes

'Hedwig' was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn't do: drag, punk rock, stand-up comedy... You know, combine them all in a thing that's supremely uncommercial from the objective point of view.

I think it would be fun to die onstage! Just drop dead in the middle of my show? That wouldn't be so bad.

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!

Cool things happen. Ace's guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you.

I started using a raft at my shows in 2009, and in 2011, I started caking people.

The fact that I could sing in a way that might not be right for RADA but is right for me was a brand-new concept.

Free form jazz means absolutely nothing to me. Because there are no boundaries.

I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.

I still approach a scene as one would approach a solo. There's nothing set or pat.

It's just I hate reading the description 'offbeat' about a character in a script, because I, along with Seth Green, Jamie Kennedy and a few others, have cornered the market on 'offbeat.'

I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it.

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

I hope people can come along to see us perform and be like, 'What the hell is this?'

I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.

In the 1980s, there was no category to stick me in. 'He sounds too smart' is what I was hearing. I realized that I had to become a member of the school of what I call 'ugly acting.' Which meant I wanted to do what Dustin Hoffman did very successfully: to play character roles, but lead character roles.

At Vienna, one of the audience affirmed publicly that my performance was not surprising, for he had distinctly seen, while I was playing my variations, the devil at my elbow, directing my arm and guiding my bow. My resemblance to the devil was a proof of my origin.

I can play the harmonica with my nose.

With 'Friday Night Lights,' we were encouraged to make it our own and improvise as much as we wanted.

My songs grow on people - like warts.

One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics.

When I was younger, I wanted to own a circus and create this bizarre revue that went from town to town. I suppose, in a way, I got my wish because when you're working on a film, you're in a traveling circus.

Frank liked me because I went nuts on the piano using feet, head, whatever I could find to bang on the piano.

The way I play, I like to be free.

I don't think anyone would bat an eye if I wrote a song.

I feel like Eurovision is a parallel dimension. It reminds me of 'Dance Fever' and 'Solid Gold' when I was a kid. Then when you hear these songs sung in English by someone who may or may not understand the words, the unique awesomeness hits you.