Quotes About Performance

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

My father, good or bad, mistakes or no, had a direct line from his heart to the music to the people, to the audience. He played with logic and his own inner truth.

You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

I think one of the big challenges about science fiction is finding truth to relate to as an actor.

Somebody once said that you can never act and be another person; you're only acting facets of yourself. I think there's a lot of truth in that.

We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.

Consummate talent and relentless passion - The Truth ain't pretty...but it rocks like crazy!

The more you act the further you get away from the truth.

In order for comedy to be funny you have to play the truth of the moment. But if you're not being completely truthful to the basis of the character, its not going to be funny.

Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

I think great humor lies in playing the truth of a situation. I see myself as a performer and that applies to a Greek drama or a modern comedy.

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.

All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare.

I can't bring you absolute truth in the detailed factual sense. All I can do is bring you an interpretation as I understand it. That's all you can ever get from an actor.

I know what I like in other actors: truth. That's the best. It makes you say, 'OK, I'll go with you on this.'

On some level in acting, what you're trying to find is truth, because when it's true is when it's also funny.

A huge insight was the power of simply telling employees the truth. If things aren't going well, tell them.

Writing is performative - and while, yes, the words in essence will be there "forever," poems are often about ecstatic moments rather than trying to pin down a particular truth of an event.

This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

For me, I don't feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman; career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth.