Quotes About Performance

You should make an effort on stage because it's a performance. The stage should be glittery and camp, but I don't go down the shops in full stage gear.

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

Brie Larson's performance in 'Room' was pretty incredible.

My focus is on giving my best and I have to enjoy my performance as then only audience will enjoy.

Actors should be overheard, not listened to, and the audience is 50 percent of the performance.

I'm always happy and most at home on the stage. I love film and television, but I love live performance... your immediacy with the audience, it makes all the difference in the world.

In 1949 there was a new thing called Television, to which my agency and advisers opposed as a performance medium.

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing.

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

When you see my performances, even people that you might have known, like Nicky Barnes in 'American Gangster,' you have to get over the fact that I look like Cuba Gooding, Jr. But once you find truth in the performance, if I'm doing my job right, you believe everything.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

There are so many films which are my favorite in 100 years. There are legendary films like 'Bombay,' 'Dil Se,' and 'Guru' as I liked Abhishek Bachachan's performance in the film.

A good performance from me - no matter what kind of film it is, or who I'm acting with - will help me get better offers.

I'm on performance enhancing drugs, so I may cause drowsiness.

Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance.

It was more freeing, mainly because he's so free anyway. He just is in his performance. So to mimic someone doing a free performance, well, that's pretty freeing within itself.

Drugs won't enhance your performance.

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers.

I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films.

So, sometimes, when I'm not happy with my performance and I have to think, I will think in English.

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

My performances have finally caught up with my ego.