Quotes About Performance

The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

Then I started graduate school at UCLA. I got a part time research assistant job as a programmer on a project involving the use of one computer to measure the performance of another computer.

I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.

When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.

I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page.

I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.

I'm always practicing lines, researching, trying to be fresh, and fully trying to become the characters I play. That's how I roll.

One of the joys about acting is researching.

Galactica' resembles 'Bonanza' because it's all theater.

Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job.

I do not, as a rule, do encores. When I have finished playing, I have indeed finished playing. I have nothing left; there has been no reserve.

The reserve strength is very important in assessing a team's ability.

A lot of comedy on television has a reserve to it, and it's a little too cool for school.

When I act, I feel like I am a color in someone else's painting - I can be the best blue that there is, but I'm still only part of their entire picture - but, with music, when I am performing with Reserved For Rondee, I am the painter, you know?

I think that if an audience is truly appreciative of a performance, they will show it. Sometimes though, there are little differences, and there are audiences that are very reserved even though they are enjoying the show.

You can be an emotional, high-strung guy, and that might work for you. I think I can be reserved and quiet and play as well as the next guy.

I love being kind of reserved and serious and then having these explosions of passion when it comes time to perform.

That's a fantasy of mine. We could do every record in a residency. It would be so cool. We could play the B-sides along with the album and get really creative with it.

Doing a residency in any particular city requires a large repertoire to ensure repeat business.

I've resigned myself to the fact that the world needs clowns, too, and I was born to be one of them. And it is an important role in our society to play.

There's no better feeling than knowing I'm going to break the guy next to me. His body will shut down, and I will keep eating. Then I will look out and see a crowd of happy people.

All the guys that entered The Groundlings, like Will Ferrell, already had incredible confidence, but I watched shut down women that didn't even have a personality completely become different human beings because of the training.