Quotes About Performance

An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.

I'm an actor and my job is to interpret.

With high fashion, it's a performance. You're trying to interpret a fantasy in a very physical way, and you really are playing a character. I've played men, dead people, famous people, historical icons, and it's no mean feat. It's quite an insular experience even though the crowd is in front of you and there's an expectation.

For me, the conductor is a person who interprets along with me, and we interpret things together.

An actor's got a serious duty to perform. God's given him the gift to interpret his creatures. He has to do that honestly and conscientiously.

I think the most insulting thing you can do to a director is to challenge when he or she is satisfied with your interpretation.

The cool thing about doing a play is that the final interpretation of a piece is turned over to the actors.

In the performance sense, I find that interpretation is improvisatory in nature. You can go anywhere with an interpretation on any given day.

I am an interpreter of music rather than a composer of it.

I'm an interpreter of music.

Sometimes, late at night on the set of 'Project Runway,' I've been known to pop an interpretive dance.

Stand-up is still my job. That is the thing I wanted to get into when I was 21. You cannot beat the immediacy of it, making people laugh without any interruptions or edits.

I'm interested in the intersection of character and actor.

When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game.

I do not really know what is my interview and performance style.

I think anyone doing an interview is to some extent on show. And therefore, we always want to put on our best face.

If you were ever to interview me after a football game or at a football game or around me during football season is totally different than when you catch me away from football.

There was an interview that I actually listened to with John Cena where he says that he is an elite-level athlete - he is elite, and he needs to make people elite whenever he goes up against them - but I was like, gosh, as much as I hate to give him credit where credit is due, it is exactly right.

Every week's a job interview for us as players.

We were always being taken to rehearsals when we were little and it is probably because of that that I like rehearsals better than concerts. There is something about listening to a group of people try over and over to get it right and at last do that provides a tension of drama you don't get when they're all dressed up giving a concert.

Barbara Stanwyck, in particular, was peerless in everything from high and low comedy to drama to musicals to film noir. She never took a false step.

Not many performers are equally at home in drama and comedy; Claudette Colbert was one of those few. It's hard to decide whether she was more brilliant in screwball comedies like It Happened One Night, The Palm Beach Story and Midnight, or tragedies like Imitation of Life and So Proudly We Hail! The most modern of actresses, she was also one of the most talented.

as an actor there`s nothing better than a great moody moment to play with nothing to say. It`s so much easier to do because you can really get inside your head.

The public will buy a certain amount of poetry if you give them their striptease." -- Ezra Pound