Quotes About Performance

Before I ever did a stage concert, I'd done hundreds of living-room concerts, which helped a lot.

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

I have a hunger for good roles.

The first audition my manger sent me on was 'The Hunger Games,' and I got the role.

'Hunger Games' was an awesome job. I never had to learn any lines. I never had to do any ADR.

Matrices act. They don't just sit there.

I feel myself trying to be charming, and then I realize I'm obviously trying to be charming, and then I try to be even more charming to make up for the fake charm, and then I've basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I'm dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me. There's a bowler and jazz hands and lots of teeth.

Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic.

Nick and I, we sometimes laugh, laugh out loud, at the horrible things women make their husbands do to prove their love. The pointless tasks, the myriad sacrifices, the endless small surrenders. We call these men the dancing monkeys.

Y si todos interpretamos un papel, es imposible que exista nada semejante a un compañero de alma porque lo que tenemos no son almas de verdad.

smart-boys fuck like they're composing a piece of math rock: This hand strums around here, and then this finger offers a nice bass rhythm.…

I've basically turned into Liza Minnelli: I'm dancing in tights and sequins, begging you to love me.

We pretend to be in love, and we do the things we like to do when we're in love, and it feels almost like love sometimes, because we are so perfectly putting ourselves through the paces. Reviving the muscle memory of early romance.

The world is black and then, showtime!

We could have been day players in an amateur porn flick.

Singed," he said, assuming that air of phony dignity cats adopt after some particularly inept performance. Something like, "That's what I meant to do all along.

juggling knives with poisoned edges.

Yeah! shouted Jonah, twirling the much larger Hamilton around the restaurant in a victory dance. The other diners watched in amazement. This wild display was hardly the public image of the too-cool-for-school Jonah Wizard. What's the matter? Hamilton challenged. Haven't you ever seen a happy rapper before?

You didn't have to stab yourself on stage. All that blood —" "It was ketchup." "It was gross

Then, in front of the entire Manhattan Coliseum, the winning handler at Global wrapped her arms around Griffin and kissed him.

That day, Cooper becomes the first Romeo ever to be arrested after a performance of Romeo and Juliet. Within thirty seconds of the gym lights coming back on, he's flanked by the two cops and marched off the stage.

Americans tend to play different roles, hoping that somehow they'll stumble on the right one.

I'm just an actor. My performance is not more important than your life. Stop watching. We're false images designed to sell you products by exploiting your insecurities. To make you spectators in life, not participants.

So I sang out the barbarous words - karaoke from Hell.