Quotes About Communication

I'm committed to an honest expression, not necessarily a performance.

I don't think it's necessary to be an actor to get great performances out of an actor. But I do think it helps me as a director because I know what I like as an actor, and I try to get that to the actors who I'm working with.

I'm single, which is good because I can concentrate the hell out of my performances. At some point, I'm going to want to find someone to chill out with at the end of the night and talk about things.

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

'Bob's Burgers' is done with the cast all together - not necessarily all together: some are in L.A. and some are in New York, but we're hearing each other. So scenes are performed as a group. And 'Archer' is just me alone in a booth.

The first song we ever performed, actually, was an instrumental, which says a lot about how shy we are.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with.

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

What I love about comedy is breaking down the barrier between the audience and the performer.

I think the actual art of expressing yourself is a very important part of being human. And an important part of being a performer is understanding what it's like to create yourself.

We can assume that for every 100 people who wanted to say something to their favorite performer, maybe only ten actually got out the stationery. And of those ten, maybe only four get the letter to the mailbox. So, out of all those fans, maybe only four percent are actually sending you anything. And maybe you have read it. Or not.

I have always had open conversations with Shahid. He would discuss what he felt as a performer, and I would talk to him about his performances.

I have more contact with people who consume, for lack of a better word, my product than any other performers.

Most people don't think of actors and people like us that are performers and out in the world as introverts, but I like to know I can trust someone first.

Kids listen to performers and we have a duty to give them certain critical information.

I really like performing for people.

I love performing in front of people, no matter where they come from or what language they speak.

I started performing very young as a salsa dancer, and every time I was on that stage dancing, all I knew was that I wanted to speak. I wanted the music to stop, and I wanted to speak.

I think that everybody's worked on shows where you feel like maybe a divide has happened between the talent and the crew. Those are the hardest jobs to do your best in, because as you're performing, you're aware that the people around you, because they haven't been afforded the respect that they deserve, they're not as invested.

It's all performing; that's what we do in life. We talk, we look, and we hear, and we listen. Your life is a performance.

Performing abroad is ambassadorial.