Quotes About Performance

I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they're in a comedy, turn into God knows what - creatures from another planet! I mean they just... the voice changes, they don't look the same, it's like - it has no similarity to any living human being, do you know what I mean?

I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.

I see a lot of similarity between Bengali and Malayalam films regarding the basic emotions, the craftsmanship, art and performance. I also feel both the industries are very true to their art and culture.

Not even the creators of 'Rock Band' could possibly believe that playing the game is tantamount to making your own music. There is, however, a sad similarity between 'Rock Band' and some actual bands, and that is the attempt at realness.

Sometimes the best parts are the leading men. But the little parts can be similarly gratifying.

It's runs for batsmen which is the criteria for selection and similarly, it is wickets for bowlers which are important.

It's fun to play characters with a past, but it's also fun to play any role that is what I would call a 'pressure cooker' kind of character, where the lid is on, and it's left to simmer throughout the movie.

I told Simon, 'I don't want to play Oscar. I want to play Felix because Oscar is too easy. He gets all the laughs. Felix is a hard part; that's the part I want to play.'

If Simon Cowell asked me, of course I would love to do 'X Factor.'

Simon would not want to audition in front of Simon.

Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed performing, she would sometimes ask members of her band to spank her before she went onstage, to distract her from her anxiety.

I love live theater. I get my rocks off by doing stand-up, and I am the only actor. But to show up eight times a week and not have that time for myself; to do someone else's lines? When I work for Wendy Wasserstein or Terrence McNally, Neil Simon or even Shakespeare, I do not have the right to change the lines.

I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'

Neil Simon didn't like it too much when we came out in clown makeup. We stopped doing that.

We've done 'Britain's Got Talent' and we work well with Simon Cowell and have done for years.

To me, cricket is a simple game. Keep it simple and just go out and play.

The joy of puppetry is that it is very simple and low-fi, which I love.

If I keep a clean sheet, I have had a good game; it is as simple as that.

I am a simple person, I try to do my best on the pitch and do nothing wrong both on and off the pitch.

I'm so bad at dancing that I've actually been in two movies where the director of the film saw me dancing and thought it was so funny that in one movie they had me do it as the mental dancing of a real simple person. The other one was, like, to-be-laughed-at dancing. That's how bad my dancing is.

I think it's important to make the simple things right: the easy saves, the catches, commanding the box. On top of that, if you make a super save, then that's great. It's the main base as a goalkeeper.

Yes, you have to treat playing Pakistan just like you would any other side, but in other matches, you often stress on the processes knowing that the result will take care of itself. Against Pakistan, the result is more important than the process, and that is the simple truth.

The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.