Quotes About Performance

I would love to play, perhaps not exactly Mimi in 'Rent,' but someone like her. Perhaps not on Broadway, but I think I feel like a musical is in my future. I sing, although I'm not Whitney Houston up in here. I'm a little bit shy about my singing, but I did it in school at Juilliard.

Acting is a job and it pays the rent. I don't do it for fun.

There's nothing better than renting a small, 50-seat theater in L.A. and just getting up there.

If I drop a ball, I'm going to beat myself up, or if I go out and a rep isn't perfect, I feel like I've got to do it again.

You've just got to read your read keys and rep it in practice and then just do your job on the field.

When you're from Brooklyn, you've got to rep, and you've got to perform, like it's your last fight on earth.

I want to write the reparations joke that makes people go, 'Yay! I'm so happy!' It's easy to go onstage and just make fun of all the 'isms' instead, but we can't all be Jeff Dunham. Although that pays very well... it pays way better to be Jeff Dunham than it ever paid to be George Carlin or Lenny Bruce.

I'm going to a great club in England, and I want to continue developing my game there. The club has put a lot of faith in me, and I want to repay them out on the pitch.

It's nice when you know the crowd are on your side. I can only repay them by working my hardest when I do get on and trying to impress them.

When I first did 'The Lord of the Rings,' I was acting on the set with the other actors, but then I had to go back and repeat the process on my own to do the physical capture on a motion capture stage.

You can repeat things because it's on a set and there are actors. But if it's a great moment and you don't capture it, it's rare to get that moment again.

On 'Mad Men,' I have a bit of an advantage because I know who gets better as they repeat a scene and who's best at the beginning.

To really have craft, you must be able to repeat something as one has to do in films.

Most parts I've played since 'Naked,' I can barely remember who they were, let alone repeat any lines.

You have to have sound mechanics to repeat the same delivery each time. That's the hard part. Since I don't bowl all the time I'm not consistent with my mechanics.

For me, the goal is to make the most of each player, play them in the position they feel best in. And then repeat, repeat, repeat.

I do not want to repeat myself with my roles.

If you get involved with something on stage that makes you feel dreadful, that's a nightmare because you have to repeat it every night.

I always feel in improv that nothing is ever as good once it's repeated.

To be able to prove my credentials of a dramatic actor, I took up roles which were different and challenging. I've never repeated a role, even if it did well for me.

I knew right then and there, it was the beginning of the end for Milli Vanilli. When my voice got stuck in the computer, and it just kept repeating and repeating, I panicked. I didn't know what to do. I just ran off the stage.

I never want to cannibalize my act, and I'm really excited that I am going to be able to perform new material. I'm not a huge fan of repeating jokes, and I don't really do any of my old material from old stand-up acts.

One of the great things about doing a play, repeating it over and over again, is that you can practice. And you can get really quite good at it for a while.

Ben Davies and all the lads that haven't played many minutes, we have to manage their minutes. You can't expect those players to go straight into playing France for 90 minutes without having repercussions. It's common sense.