Quotes About Performance

Everyone knows, the point of an interview is not to demonstrate who you are, but to pretend to be whatever sort of person they want for the job.

he only looks at how hard a person works and what results they get—and not at what a completely horrible cow they are.

Suze us my oldest, dearest friend, and being with her used to feel like the easiest thing in the world. But now it feels like I'm in a stage play and I've forgotten my lines and she's not about to help me out.

It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done.

Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play.

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

The drama is a great revealer of life.

What an actor says is much, much less important than a life, so that's the great use for improvisation; you go, you find the life and then you add the words.

When I'm on camera, I have to do things pretty much the way I do things in everyday life. It gives the audience someone real to identify with.

What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

A good song is like a mannequin - its form makes sense, but there's no life. There should be memorable melody, thoughtful lyric, appropriate arrangement.

You feel like half of your life is a vacation when you go to these Barcelona music festivals and have all day to sound check or go to the pool.

An actress always knows when she's hit it and mostly you haven't; but once or twice I think I hit it right, so maybe that's good enough for one life.

I pretty much have made a career out of playing real life people.

Whenever I do a performance I always hope it is the best day of my life. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.

I act probably a lot more than you see. I happen to choose movies that don't have much of a life, or I choose movies that are shown on cable instead of as features

I knew early in life that I wanted a show business career.

In real life I'm obviously a lot more shy, but once I'm on set and in costume and I'm hidden behind the person I'm playing I feel quite free to experiment.

Any actor, any playwright who's worked a life in the theater knows how to do things cheaply and quickly. It's just all by necessity. Invention is everything.

I was convinced that I was going to be onstage for the rest of my life.

I'm grateful to my audience, that there are people who will buy a ticket and come and see us play and who essentially support me and this life of music.

The live concerts are still one of the two greatest joys of my life.

As an actor, your life experience is just as important as studying.