Quotes About Performance

Once you are in the character, you should let your inner actor take over you.

When a character has so many secrets and so much inner life, it's a joy to play those characters because you can use your craft.

When you do a drama, you are challenged to trust your inner voice much more. Because when you put a comedy in front of even a 25-person screening, you know whether it's working or not. The barometer is overt.

I felt good in the bullpen and even when we came out in the first inning I felt fairly good.

You've got to try to close every inning out, take it one inning at a time, one batter at a time.

If I've got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.

I've always said, in India and England especially, but all around the world, it's hard to start your innings against good attacks.

I used to bowl a lot at the death while bowling in the IPL, but it serves as a confidence booster that I can do a lot more with the ball at the start of the innings and at the death.

I have always enjoyed playing as a batsman. In the T20 format, I have been asked to play at six or seven. I have finished a few innings batting first and a few chasing. It feels good and it feels like yes I can do it.

If you bowl well early in the innings, it is also important to finish well.

The cutter has really helped me stay in the game longer and helped me get past the five, six innings a little more consistently.

A hero today must be Raj Kapoor, Sunil Dutt, Shammi Kapoor, Dev Anand, Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan rolled into one. These are the six hero slots in Hindi cinema and an actor must be able to play all if he wants a long innings.

When you give your team five innings, you don't really feel good about five innings.

It feels good to be able to contribute, eat innings, provide some rest for the bullpen.

If I don't go 200 innings, it's been a tough year.

My job is to be ready, to be ready to pitch, however that is, however many innings that is, I need to be ready for that. I need to go in and do my job.

I've been really lucky when it comes to casting kids, and I don't particularly like child actors. Too often, they just show up, and they've had whatever real innocence that's in a child just beaten out of them. They start to perform for you, and you can just see it coming. It's no good.

Having no choice doesn't result in innovation and performance improvement.

I've never lost my appetite for acting; it's innovative and challenging.

I'm not a pyrotechnical director; I'm not good with all those innovative things. What I am interested in is how actors can touch the heads and hearts of an audience.

There's nothing more Broadway than 'Hedwig.' It's very family-friendly. There's innuendo and stuff, but not more than you'd see on TV.

Our focus is on outputs rather than inputs.

I'm definitely one of those actresses who comes to a set knowing how I want to do a scene, and I definitely love input from my directors and my writers.

I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.