Quotes About Performance

Onstage I do all the stuff I'd never do in real life, like lashing out at people who make me mad or freaking out in a long bank lineup. Performing allows me to fulfill all the sicko fantasies I've ever had.

In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get to in real life. It can be addicting.

You've got to be happy when you play a sad character; otherwise, you just get depressed. Make your real life as fun as possible.

It sounds good to say, 'We're going to do this,' on C-SPAN, but try to do that in real life, and it's not going to work.

I do sometimes wonder if people think, 'Oh we'll have her because she cries well.' The odd thing is I don't really know where it comes from. If the script is good, I find I can usually cry without too much trouble - in fact, the hard thing is trying to get me to stop. But I'm not really a crier in real life. I'm not a dramatic person, you see.

I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone... it's a joke!

I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.

People who aren't complicated in real life come through as pretty bland on the screen. Most great performers are not very happy and well adjusted. Perhaps that's the price they pay for being originals.

I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life.

In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.

Nobody's perfect, and everybody plays the heel and the baby face at times in real life.

It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.

Playing tough characters just comes easy for me. It's not who I am in real life, so I love going to work and pretending to be something I'm not. I love all the action and confidence. But when I finally go do a rom-com, I hope my fans will support me.

At the heart of any drama, there's conflict. When you are acting, you get to play out the confrontations you want to have in real life but can't. Or the emotions that you would want to have in real life, but sometimes they are too difficult.

I laugh much more during takes than I do during real life. Maybe because you're not supposed to. I've ruined many takes because I will lose it.

Projection of sound gives the stage a life different from real life. As actors and interpretive artists, we must not only be able to know the attitude of the script, we must also make ourselves heard - without amplification.

I'm not as extreme in real life as I am in the ring or on television.

I think it's important to be friends with the person you have to kiss onstage in front of a hundred people. You might not be friends in real life - especially if you're in high school - but you need to at least be 'secret friends' for it to work. Try to be comfortable with each other.

Being a defender of Real Madrid means being able to make very few mistakes.

It's normal that there's pressure at Real Madrid.

At Real Madrid there is always pressure to win.

In 2009, I accepted the proposal of Real Madrid, but I was completely destroyed there because I could not give what I had given Milan. I was completely lost.

When you're playing for Real Madrid, even when you're playing well, you're under scrutiny.