Quotes About Performance

Both 'Udaan' and 'Lootera' were largely rehearsed. With 'Trapped,' I left room for improvisation.

In a live setting, the audience is trapped and can't leave. That really makes the audience be with you and laugh more because you're there.

In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film, it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act, and you're in the audience.

I always feel secure. I can't be a pure actor if I feel insecure. I can't let other things take over my love for acting. For me, it's a giving art. It is not something which I am doing for myself. I am doing it for my co-actors, unless it is something like 'Trapped'.

There's a lot of traps you can fall into when you are playing someone who existed. If it comes out just as impersonation, that's bad; it has to be an embodiment. You have to live it, not just sound and look like it.

I think one of the traps of theater - what makes it so amazing is that it's not able to be mass-produced, but it also makes it hard to get work seen by people because if you're a creator, you do a cabaret or something, and maybe 100 people will see it and then it ends the night that you close it.

Draymond's always talking trash, and he's really good at getting you off your game. He's one of the guys that he'll talk trash, even when you're playing golf. He will knock you off your game... But when you see his swing, you're like, 'How do you talk trash so well, and your swing's this bad?'

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

Rankings mean nothing. You have to talk trash.

Drag is about whatever persona you put on to do a particular task. I could pick up trash in the morning and throw on my navy blue jumpsuit, and that would be that gig!

I try to get in people's heads. My job is to get the ball, so if I'm talking trash to an O-lineman or quarterback or receiver, and they start thinking about me, that's good, because they aren't thinking about the game anymore.

It's really easy to be grounded again when you get back home, and you sing in front of 20,000 people a night, and your wife hands you the kids and tells you it's your turn to be on diaper duty and take out the trash. So it's easy to keep things in perspective when things like that happen.

I love when guys come at the beginning of the game and start talking trash. It gets me going.

With MJ and Kobe, what you get is you get people who is talking trash to you and backing it up.

I don't want to talk trash about somebody: I want to prove it inside the cage.

There's not that many tough guys that really talk trash in the NBA.

A lot of people like to trash talk, but I don't. I like to use my movements inside the cage to do my talking.

When I was talking a lot of trash, a lot of the guys knew that when I started getting serious was when I started getting a little bit quieter. If I started locking up somebody, then I'd start talking even more and I'd talk more aggressive. But once I stopped, they knew I was really serious.

I'm not a trash talker, I like to do all my talking with my fists in the ring.

I just play the game. I'm used to trash talking.

You need the trash talk, and I'm an entertainer. I don't care if I look positive or not.

I definitely can shoot. I definitely like to talk trash, too.

It's rare that you get to have a lovely time of it and you're not just portraying endless trauma on film.

You know, a lot of actors I think go into acting for therapy from whatever trauma has affected them as children. But for me, I think I sought out the drama. That's why I like doing what I do.