Quotes About Performance

Whether it's an inspiring song or whether it's an entertaining song - whatever it might be about it - I just want people to feel the emotion that I put into it because I think emotion... is everything.

Actors can have a fair amount of hate for each other, so when another actor says, 'You did your thing,' or 'That was inspiring,' you can't really ask for more than that.

What I learned from doing 'The Graduate' was it doesn't matter what the medium is... as long as the material is inspiring and the characters are well written.

I look at my role and how important it is for the film. For instance, my role in 'Sarrainodu' was very much appreciated.

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?

I am always in much better shape when I am doing a Broadway show because you have the eight shows a week to kind of keep the body clean and perfect in a sense, you know? For instance, I always eat much better when I am in a show because you can't have dairy - for your voice.

Television is very instant. Theatre is much more free, but you are very much on your own up there on stage and in control of your own performance.

It's all very well making records, but the joy of performing is that you get to meet people who give you instant feedback.

I feel like I can play with any team. Whatever team that is, I feel like I can make an instant impact.

WWE definitely gives you the forum, the stage to do different things and see what works. That's the cool thing about being in front of a live audience every single week in WWE. You get instant feedback.

I just know when I get in the game, I've got to be instant impact off the bench.

I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

I think one of the great things about acting is the instant gratification: you just get up and start being a part of the story. The immediacy is something you get really addicted to.

Acting is a state of being, and the camera can tell instantly if you're lying. But there are many different ways to approach that state of being. Each director has his own approach to the situation, and that's really interesting.

The best thing about being a good girl on TV is that the audience loves you back instantly. You don't have to make extra effort to make them empathize with you.

I rather like finding out instantly whether you've been successful or not. It's a cliche, really, but the fact is that every gig is different: it's a live event, and you're with a different group of individuals every night.

I instantly connect to certain characters and scripts.

It was Freddie who instilled in us the belief that we had to make people gasp every time.

I think that's just a natural instinct as an actor is that you want to just keep exploring humanity and finding different facets of it.

I don't think talent or an instinct for acting is something you can teach.

As an actor, the only thing you have is your instinct and your imagination.

My first love and my first instinct are acting.

I don't really approach any part in any particular way. I tend to get an instinct on the way I want to do it, depending on that role.

I'm not an instinctive actor.