Quotes About Performance

It's strange not to allow the actor some input and breathing room into what was written on the page - it is their job to make it come alive.

As far as I can tell, the baseball teams are run pretty darn well. I'm sure there's some better and worse, but I don't ever see a baseball team anymore and go, 'They're absolutely insane.'

Having full faith that you can write something completely insane, and your actress will ground it and make it feel real, is a very liberating feeling.

New Year's was insane! It was the best show I've ever played for New Year's.

I think I understand why most actors and actresses are insane, because having to go through an emotional roller coaster as your job every day of your life would make somebody absolutely loopy.

The whole decathlon is ridiculous, but the 1,500 meters is insanity.

I have an insatiable desire to be the center of attention.

Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure.

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.

But I'm guessing every actor is insecure.

Actors are such an insecure breed.

All actors are incredibly insecure.

I felt very insecure about whether I was up to recreating my stage 'Fagin' in front of a camera.

Actors, by nature, are insecure. I don't see that as necessarily a bad thing. It is good to question yourself, be self-analytical. You get a better performance if you challenge yourself. If you go around thinking you're great, you're never going to challenge or scare yourself.

It helps an actor an awful lot when he looks like the part. There's nothing more disconcerting, that makes you more anxious or more insecure, than when you don't look like who you're supposed to be.

Actors are dumb when they get insecure of their co-stars. A lot of actors do. When there is a good actor, they're like, 'Oh, he's eating up the part.' That's stupid.

I am very insecure because that's how I have played cricket. Since Under-14, I was told, 'If you don't perform, you will be dropped.' I have started living with this system.

We're so insecure, comedians. 'Did you laugh? Do you think I was funny?'

I don't know how any film can bother you. It doesn't have to do with multi-starrer films. If you are insecure, you can feel insecure being the only girl also.

All I really care about is making great music and putting on great shows. I think, to do that, you have to be fearless. It certainly doesn't help to be insecure.

Being in an acting class, you always feel like, you know, you're insecure, a lot of ways, when the teacher is commenting on your performance.

I don't think anybody becomes an actor to serve theatre or to serve art anywhere. We all become actors because we are insecure people who want to be looked at. That was the reason I became an actor.

If there's any actor who is saying we are not insecure, they are lying, because this job is an emotional one.

Once I start putting all my little insecurities in my mind, I'm not actually acting. Then it's about me - and it should never be about me. It should be about the character.