Quotes About Performance

I know that one of my difficulties as an actor is to try to do too much, from all those years ago when my acting took place live on a stage. It was just my shiny face there, so you've gotta be super careful how much over-expressing you're doing with your eyes and nose and so on.

As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.

I don't busk any more because it's gotten too dangerous.

I had gotten one of the first Korg synthesizers with 300 presets.

I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten it done today. That's how it is. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.

I've gotten jobs that I think I've done the worst audition I ever did, and I got the job. I've done the best audition I've ever done in my entire life, and I haven't gotten the job.

I've governed. I've led. And I know how to get results.

Business is doing better than governments.

I hope when I am governor and it's all over, I am a governor who underpromised and overdelivered.

My sense is, as governor I've gotten a lot of stuff done.

I'm a chairman on the Board of Governors for the East-West Players, the longest-running Asian-American theater company in America.

Give me a strapless gown and a rhinestone-studded guitar and some 55-year-olds in my audience, along with their kids and grandkids. Don't give me 'boogie'!

When I need to exorcise a demon, I grab whatever score is going to house the song I need to sing out of my system, and I sing it.

You'll read a script, and it'll grab me, or it won't.

Look, let's be honest. No one is interested in seeing me act. My bare arms, legs, front and back grab more attention than how I perform on screen.

I have to grab audience attention even if I don't last beyond 2-3 minutes before the camera.

Once you kind of get into that rhythm where you grab a lot of rebounds every game, it kind of gets easier.

Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so private, the audience doesn't know what they're doing.

I like playing a character every day. I like having something to go back to. I always enjoyed that with 'Will & Grace.' I like the camaraderie. I like having a crew that I know and I can work with every day.

By God's grace, 'Abhinay Chakra' has shaped up very well.

I'm focused now, definitely. I absolutely need to show everyone that I'm powerful and strong and can be graceful and artistic, too.

I don't think it's a matter of, do you win the game or not, it's how gracefully do you play it.

When I played 'Annie' in the seventh grade, I knew from then on that I wanted to be an actor.

I don't understand what A grade commercial cinema is. If you are talking about box office success, mine are A+ then!