Quotes About Performance

An audience doesn't have to know the precise events behind a character's Need, Public Persona, and Tragic Flaw. But the actor portraying that character does.

Women are all female impersonators to some degree.

So much of what they do, with Mr. Kingsley, is restraint in the name of release. It seems they have to throttle their emotions to have complete access to them. Access to one's emotions = presence in the moment. Acting = responding with authentic emotion under made-up circumstances.

All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves....

It's no good if you are at a so-called best team, but you sit on a bench.

Someone asked me 'What's the biggest thing you'll take out of the Premier League?' I said that you can't relax. I think you can go from having a great run of games - you can go four, five, six unbeaten - and turn a corner and go into a run of seven or eight games without winning. That's how difficult it is for the so-called smaller clubs.

I am definitely of the method-acting school. Everything to me is about sound. I don't dress up in period costumes or anything like that. I'm very aural. When I'm working, I try to soak up the sounds of an era.

You expect to have to soak up some pressure when you are playing Manchester City away from home.

No one ever has a chance to get to know the real me because I do play a bad guy, and sometimes it's hard to soak in the comments or the negativity because that's the response you want to elicit. I am a normal person, but that's part of the job. I'm playing a character, and that's my role.

One of the most important times in my life was the first time that I remember seeing my daddy get onstage and play music with a bunch of guys. All of them playing something different at the same time and all becoming one, and me soaking that in at 5 years old and going, 'That's my daddy up there, and he's a part of something.'

Gone are the days of just containing through the middle, gone are the days of just soaking up pressure. You've got to be able to take wickets.

So I had all the names, three names, and that's good to have on a soap.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

I started with commercials - for shampoo, pancakes, insurance, Volvo. I did a Lux soap commercial with Sarah Jessica Parker. And I got a role in an indie film called 'Satellite' that did well in festivals.

I tell you, being on a soap is the hardest work, and it gets so old. Get on your mark, get in the light, don't turn too far upstage - that's all it is.

I don't know why people feel that I am only interested in films, but I very much want to do fiction. My only prerequisite is a good role, something which satisfies the actor in me. If I get a good banner and a good channel, I would definitely do a daily soap.

It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.

I'm not that keen to do a daily soap, but I'm always ready for reality soaps.

I'd love to be an old actress and still be in a soap.

When you talk about a daily soap, it means one would be seen 28 days a month, which requires 30 days of shooting. So an actor being seen on a show airing four days a week and being telecast thrice a day comes along with a baggage of the character.

The amazing thing with a soap is every day you're challenged, the amount of storylines we go through, the amount of emotions you get to play is really challenging.

I think hosting is a far better option than acting in soaps as one feels much more responsible for the show.

I've been on soaps.