Quotes About Performance

It was pretty insane to play the Grammy Awards and looking out in the audience and seeing rock royalty - Bono and Paul McCartney. It was crazy.

Comedy is all about the pause.

I'd rather try and cram in another two gags than leave a pause to say, 'Hey, wasn't that bit funny?'

In film or TV work, you can have this amazingly dramatic pause, and they'll just edit it out.

I was diagnosed with necrotizing chronic pancreatitis, and it definitely put a pause on live performances for a while.

People will pay more to be entertained than educated.

The equation I share with the camera doesn't change whether you place a camera in front of me or a live audience. Just the pay cheques differ. But that doesn't matter to me because I've so much money, I don't even think about it. It's just lying there.

Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

Pay in the acting world hasn't kept up with inflation.

They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.

In official competitions there are mistakes you don't make or you pay for it dearly.

These days, I pay attention to my eating habits and avoid junk food, but looks are not that important to be a good actor.

You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.

Basically, the actor's job is to pay attention to the script.

One of the things I've learned over the years is that you only do what you can do as an actor. You do the best job you can, but you have no control over so many elements that are going to determine the outcome of that film. I never pay attention to what happens after.

If you are who you are on stage, people pay attention.

I don't pay attention a whole lot to what my numbers are.

Actors, by very definition, we want people to pay attention to us, and so usually, that comes in the package of insecurity. So if we're not comfortable, we don't really show you a lot.

Acting has always been very comfortable for me, so it allows me to pay attention to other parts of the process literally while I'm acting.

I don't pay attention to stats or anything like that. I just pay attention to how I play and the intensity that I play with.

I've played festivals in Australia. If it's a dance music festival or mainstream festival, there's maybe, like, 10 percent who pay attention to the music.

A great song has to stand on its own, just singing and playing, and the rest is frosting. But you have to pay attention to the frosting.

We don't really try to pay attention to the score, we just try to play to win.

I know that a lot of times when a guy is making a lot of money and he's not playing up to that caliber, it's like he's just getting his paycheck. That's never been me. That's never, ever been me.