Quotes About Performance

Picking from previous works I've watched, I really liked Jennifer Lawrence's 'Silver Linings Playbook.' It made me want to play that kind of role some day.

In the beginning, it was meant to be like a faceless art piece. Then I did the first record and it received enough notice to satisfy my needs. I questioned the procedure out of fear. The Silver Jews was never meant to be recreated live.

Whatever I want to do or say, I get to do it on the silver screen, so in normal life I don't feel the necessity to do or say anything.

What is important to me is the mileage a particular role I depict gets on the silver screen.

I have always believed it is not enough just to wear the silver fern and I do not regret pushing myself to try to deliver my best possible performance.

Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fight, and you're going in with a game plan.

I would quite like to do a different accent or play something so different from myself because Olivia, the character I play in this film, is similar to me.

Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form.

Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama.

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great - and is great - there are also shoddy moments when you feel really rotten, and when it's going well, you're not allowed to complain.

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.

Acting and singing are actually very similar because they're both telling a story.

Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.

At some point, a group of people working towards similar goals will exhibit a distribution of performance.

I don't really get a buzz from playing characters that are similar to me 'cause that's not acting to me.

I'm a great believer that actors are very similar to session musicians. You wouldn't ask a session musician, 'How do you play jazz,' and then, 'How do you play classical?' They just do it, because if they don't do it, they don't eat.

Singing and acting are actually very similar things. Anyone can sing and anyone can be a film actor. All you have to do is learn.

I like to be challenged as an actor, allowing myself to take up diverse roles. Even audiences get tired of watching their stars in similar roles over and over again.

I'd love to play characters that are so similar to me that it would be crossing limits, and then at the same time I would love to play characters that are so different from me that it would be that kind of challenge as well.

Acting is very similar to modeling.

I don't try to find similarities with my characters because then it becomes difficult to act.

The biggest similarity between me and my character is that we've both played clubs for 20 years. In real life, the clubs aren't quite as controlled - and my hair isn't quite as in place as it is on 'Ally McBeal.'