Quotes About Performance

As an actor, you are always looking for something different and challenging... 'High Priestess' gave me that rare opportunity.

There are very rare occasions when you get a good wicket to bat on, but whatever wicket you get, you have to play at least 20 overs for your side.

My heroes, growing up, were people like Andy Kaufman and Groucho Marx and people that very rarely drop the persona.

For a long time, I couldn't cry on stage. I cried very rarely as a child.

I sing a lot, so if I have lipstick, it gets all over the microphone, so I rarely wear lipstick.

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

As a matter of fact, I rarely ever play myself.

I very rarely get nervous as an actor. Very rarely.

I never played the right roles, or very rarely got the right roles offered, except on stage.

Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.

I'm rarely singing in English.

I've actually, very rarely have I worked in my own voice. I've played, I think, Russian, American, Northern from the North of England. All sorts of different accents I've worked in.

The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.

Sometimes you walk out of an audition and you kind of know you nailed it and you're probably going to book it, but you very rarely are told in the room by the people who are hiring you.

I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' When it works, a musical is an amazing thing. But it rarely works.

You'll very rarely find that you can enhance a performance to give it a real emotional centre and truth... after the fact.

There are lots of Joy Division songs that are so powerful when played live, some of which we did either never play or played very rarely.

You rarely see any blowout games.

Rarely in film acting do you get to do a scene for very long.

I rarely think that when a guy loses a fight, it's a weight issue. You can either fight, or you can't.

Acting and directing are two separate disciplines that rarely mix.

Music, performance, and a woman is very rarely accepted within Muslim communities.

Sometimes in theater, they'll talk about your character a lot before you enter, but that rarely happens in television.

I get to be in a room with other actors, but I never, or very rarely, get the chance to be in a room with another director.