Quotes About Performance

I think if people want to go back and look at season two of 'True Blood,' I'm proud of my work in that.

'True Blood' allows you to be big, so it's almost like you're on stage, and I'm comfortable with that.

I was so nervous that this was 'True Detective' and that I needed to do a good job that I would just dig into every scene.

A guy like Bray Wyatt, he could easily have played something in 'True Detective.'

With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it... it's like you're filming a theater piece.

I love gritty dramas, 'Queen Sugar,' 'True Detective' - stuff like that, but I also love quippy comedies - those multi-cam comedies with incredibly talented and funny casts with perfect comedic timing.

I believe in the fact that to portray a character convincingly, you need to live that character, own that character. You have to be earnest with every line that you deliver. However, it doesn't mean that you have to cut off your true self.

I would love to do a sports biopic. I love sports and I think it would be amazing to be a part of a true story and play an athlete.

When you play a character that's someone real, when you're playing a true story, it's really great 'cause you're not pretending to make up some silly thing.

Often, when people don't do so well in a monologue at UCB, it's because they're racking their brain so hard to be funny that they're just not honest and don't just tell a true story, which is what we want.

True success in the N.B.A., you must have consistency of culture.

They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

The Moodies is a responsibility to deliver the goods every night onstage and to do it sincerely; otherwise, it doesn't work. You've got the three guys left in the Moodies that really want to do it onstage, so I think we're truer to the old records now than we ever were.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

My truest passion is writing, so I continue to do that on my own while seeing what all the buzz is about being in front of the camera.

The fundamental job of the actor is to tell about the human condition, to be a voice for the truest ideas and deepest emotions.

Those who talk to themselves are the truest actors.

There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy.

I've heard everyone do 'Bring Him Home' from 'Les Miserables.' When Colm Wilkinson did it, I truly never thought I would hear anyone as good, never mind better.

The only thing I'm really, truly good at is music - I just love it.

The musical training taught me to focus my mind, before playing in an orchestra taught me how to truly concentrate. If you miss your moment in an orchestra, there is no forgiving.

I truly believe that players who tell you they don't feel the pressure of international cricket, of being away from home for months at a time, are lying to everyone and themselves.

I fell through a stage once. I was doing a truly African dance, and all of a sudden, I hit the ground with my foot and went straight through the stage. I guess they didn't have much money, so the floor was kind of rotting.

There are very few actors who are truly good at improvising; that's a real skill.