Quotes About Performance

'Friends' is easy to dismiss, but it's really good television - the art with which those actors play with comedy shouldn't be denigrated. And they also know how to play irony, which I think a lot of English actors might find quite difficult.

Your lineage and surname become irrelevant after your first film. Audiences do not care.

It's irrelevant whether it's a big match or not. It's about focusing on your job at the time. You're still trying to do things as well as you can.

I think records are irrelevant, but I'm being approached about it all the time. If I could avoid it, that would be great.

Your gender becomes irrelevant when you are in a performance-based environment.

I prefer doing strong roles irrespective of duration, and it is almost impossible for me to take up a role that has nothing much to contribute to the script.

Sometimes in T20, you need to bowl only one over, and once the captain has given you that one over, irrespective of whether it is good or bad, that one over is out of the equation. That actually helps you, that one over. By the time the batsman figures out what you are trying to do, you get rid of one over.

An actor has to act irrespective of the camera or location.

I think what matters is whatever you do on screen should be good irrespective of the time you have on screen.

If a film is entertaining, it will work irrespective of anything. It should be entertaining and engaging; otherwise, it becomes a documentary.

The hunger for runs is always there, irrespective of whether I was getting runs or not.

I don't think there should be any discrimination between TV and film actors. I think our job is to act, irrespective of the medium.

I think an actor should look for a good role irrespective of its length.

An actor is an actor irrespective of age.

Once I sign a film, irrespective of whether it is a small production or a large one, I make it mine and give my best.

I'm happy to do good roles, irrespective of language.

You are given certain skills, and if you don't use them effectively, you are being irresponsible.

I don't want to say I'll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me doing it.

When the response to comedy becomes cheering instead of laughing, that is so irritating. It's the worst.

There's always going to be people who will criticize my performance. Sometimes, it gets irritating. Sometimes I just brush it off and say these people don't know what they are talking about.

Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball.

Acting is a weird, kind of alienating job because you're in an isolated place. Even if you're working with a lot of other people, you're kind of alienated. Actors say that a lot, and I kind of find that to be true.

No matter how you look at it, one person cannot be evaluated and paid in isolation of budgets.

You cannot judge the performance of an actor in isolation. A performance becomes good because of so many factors, including the other actors.