Quotes About Performance

The truth is it's fun to be up there and know that you're in your underwear. Even though I know I'm exploiting my sexuality in a certain way, it's fun! It boosts my ego.

I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.

Acting is the absence of acting. It's believing in the truth of the moment you are creating.

The truth is I love musical theatre and always have.

Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.

The moment I do any puppy dog acting, I think the joke is dead. It's in the truth of how I play it, and the real painful honesty that I approach my performance with.

As an actor, you try to bring as much of yourself to a part to try and create a feeling of authenticity and emotional truth and resonance.

You can bring truth to anything, whether it's a dance movie or an incredibly poignant indie drama or a really broad comedy. As long as you show up to play, I don't think you can go wrong.

I do understand sometimes when actors say there's no one to talk to, or you can't react to, there's truth in that, but for me, I've always enjoyed green screen, and blue screen.

I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.

The actor's job is to divine and embody the truth, and find it.

If we should tell ourselves the truth, all things being equal, President Jonathan will be re-elected with minimal stress, because of his sterling performance in the last six years.

I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

With Twitter, you just want to make people laugh in their meeting; on stage, people have paid for their tickets with their hard-earned money, so I owe them the truth as I experience it.

If I wasn't performing, I wasn't alive. That's the truth. My parents had absolutely no interest in the business, but they knew it made me happy, so they said 'Go for it, girl!'

The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.

Truth in drama is elusive. You never quite find it, but the search for it is compulsive.

The scary truth is 96 percent of mutual funds fail to match the market, and the 4 percent that do, they're always changing.

The drama is make-believe. It does not deal with truth but with effect.

Truth in art is truth n circumstances.

Teamwork is great for all, but result is greater for some.

If you can't bring yourself to applaud because the performance was lousy, then applaud because it's over. They tried.

Improvisation, if you play it at the top of your intelligence, leads to a kind of truth that people find really accessible.

People in concert crowds were not used to being noticed and singled out by a band—it was as if the television set had started talking back to them.