Quotes About Performance

That's what makes me insufferable to be around, is that most of my life I have assumed that everyone wants to see me perform and do things all the time.

Acting is a really insular thing.

I have cancelled shows before for knowing full well that my heart was not in it at that moment. Why? Because its an insult to the audience.

Insult comedy has been around forever. I can make fun of people, and they won't get mad at me.

I never worked with a dialogue coach before, but I'd hate it if an American did a British accent and didn't do it well. It would be insulting.

The songs of mine that don't work, the ones that I wouldn't consider playing live for instance, fail to integrate their idiosyncracies. It's not that they fail because they're boring, but because they overreach.

I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.

Whatever you've been asked to do, whatever your role is today, do it really well, deliver results, and do it with integrity.

I'm an actor so I approached my debut with as much honesty and integrity towards the character that I was given to play.

I've always been a fan of physical comedy. It kind of hits you in a different way; it bypasses the intellect and hits you in the gut.

Sometimes I think your intellect can get in your way as an actor or an artist. When you come from a world of improv and comedy, you're able to let it flicker and fall out.

Sometimes you realize that the thing an actor is asking for isn't exactly the thing they want. Maybe they're asking for more dialogue, or maybe they want a deep intellectual exploration of their role. But probably what they really need is encouragement.

To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

I wanted to make an artwork that really underlined the contradiction between how machines see and how humans see. Because music is so affective and is just as corporeal as it is cerebral, I thought coupling a music performance with machine vision adds up to something that work on an emotional, aesthetic, and intellectual level.

I discovered that my drag really does speak to people on an emotional level. I also discovered that people are sometimes put off by an intellectual approach to drag.

I'm drawn to roles because they excite me intellectually and emotionally.

You have to assume that you're talking to the most intelligent, tuned-in audience you could ever get. That's the way you're going to get the best out of people. Whether they know you or not shouldn't matter for comedy. They should get to know you pretty quickly. and they should be having a good time pretty quickly.

I was taught never to compromise: to never sing a cheap song. I never look down at the audience and think that they are ignorant or think that I'm more intelligent than they are. To think otherwise is totally incorrect and runs contrary to everything I was raised to believe.

One needs to be super intelligent and have an above-average IQ to be able to work in movies.

If a film is being made by an intelligent director, they're going to cast the right guy.

I think the female actors are far more intelligent than the male actors.

Amitabh Bachchan is an intelligent actor.

Actors go into it because it gives us the chance to play people a great deal more interesting than we are, and to say things infinitely wittier and more intelligent than anything we could think of.