Quotes About Performance

I loved doing 'Homeland.' I loved playing Brody.

I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland.'

As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that ability to give into your imagination is something that I enjoy.

There's something to be said for going right into people's living rooms. I think actors have always loved that medium - you're right in there with people in their homes. A lot of very audacious work is being done on television.

Like I'm in San Diego today and this is my hometown so I've got a lot of my friends coming and I definitely want to put on the best show that I can.

I have to do my homework, be fast and consistent. In that case I have always beaten my team-mates.

My name is Ella; that's who I am at school, hanging out with friends, while I'm doing homework. But when I'm up on stage, 'Lorde' is a character.

I have never done homework and have always left the details to the director. This holds true from my first film 'Naache Mayuri' to 'Naagin.'

I am an actor and I do not have to relate to whatever I play on screen them at a personal level. What is important is to understand the character, do enough homework to know the frame of mind of the character or his back story.

At Ferrari they didn't give me the space, and at Honda I had the space but I didn't have the machinery.

Just give me a good role that allows me to hone my craft, and I am a pretty happy camper.

The best part of being on a television series for all those years is that you really get to hone your craft.

The art of what they call female impersonation, or the drag shows, really helped me to hone what type of woman I was.

That's what I do in my stand-up. I work hard and hone the material and after a while audiences expect what I do to be good.

I am learning a lot as a theatre artiste as it gives lots of opportunities to hone my skills as an actor.

Al Pacino, De Niro, Daniel Day Lewis - they're the best out there because everything they do comes from a very honest place.

Let's be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much.

I don't know, I find that honestly, the stand-up thing in some ways is a little bit of a cliche to carry around, because people don't consider stand-ups really actors.

I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.

I honestly think I'm just an actor. It doesn't matter the medium. I can go on stage and be happy, I can be on TV and be happy.

I like to learn the lines and not get any precontrived things in my head about the part. Just get on stage and see what the other actors are doing, and respond to them as honestly as I can.

I just have to open up when I'm on stage because that's what I did in my life. I want people to know what I've been through, and the love and the honesty that I have kept inside me. I just open my heart and let my heart go free.

People have said I played some pretty amazing gigs in the seventies, but in all honesty, I probably played one good show in three.

Acting means nothing unless it's truth. And honesty.