Quotes About Performance

It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk about that stuff you were fired from.'

On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense here.' And they can show me the screen, and I can be like, 'I know exactly what to do here.'

Hey, if someone is crushing on me, and it brings them out to the show, so be it!

Getting attention is my business. My whole life's predicated on, 'Hey, look at me!'

The director will be like, 'Hey, great take. Do you want to see the playback?' And I'm like, 'Definitely not.'

Like, it's fun for me to sing 'I Think We're Alone Now.' But when 'Could've Been' comes out as a single, that's a ballad and really shows my voice; then people will say, 'Hey, this girl really can sing.'

It's much more fun to play something you're nothing like than what you are... It's much easier to hide yourself in a character.

I think that's why so many school bands start on guitars: because they hide their mistakes with the distortion.

I'm used to playing characters that are so different to me and I love that; it's my safety blanket and I hide behind the character.

I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.

I manage to hide in my movies.

And you can't hide in a comedy scene either. You have to give in to the scene and commit.

The thing about being an actor is that you turn into other people. You have to hide yourself a bit in order to let that other person come out.

The challenge in most car chases is you're trying to hide the fact that it's not the actor driving.

As an actor, there are so many different people to hide behind.

You can't hide when you're on the top of the leaderboard. You can't hide my name.

As an actor, there's nothing worse than having to hide anything, because you're just so aware of it.

Keeping wicket is the worst place to be when out of form. You can't hide at fine leg where you might touch the ball once every 10 overs. Behind the wicket you are involved every ball.

I'm an actress. You can hide behind your character when you're acting - you're not being yourself.

I believe I am a character actor who likes to hide behind my characters.

When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.

What once was an expression of who I was - acting - also became my hiding place.

All my work's been disguise, really: hiding behind the character.

Actors are bloody marvelous at hiding.