Quotes About Performance

I'm not a standup, but I play one on TV.

For me, as an actor, going from TV to film was interesting because TV and film are two very different things.

Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.

I find that as long as I'm acting it doesn't matter if it's for TV, or a series or a short film. I always have fun no matter what I'm doing.

You're a professional. You don't need for me to break a film down for you. If you want to stop the guy you're playing, they pay you millions of dollars. You get you a TV and break the player down yourself.

You numb yourself so you're not terrified when you're on TV at 7 o'clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people.

It ain't passive. It ain't TV. Go out there and rock n' roll and dance and have fun.

I don't have a good memory, so learning all the songs for my TV performances was a real challenge.

I do like to do TV work when it's firing on all cylinders.

Some things can be hidden on TV with the help of cameras but in theatre, you are seen live by the audience, so you can't get out of your character.

The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.

I was an actress long before I was a reality TV person.

The pressure I did feel before matches was self-inflicted. I didn't go out on court there thinking about what was being said in the papers and on TV about me.

I wrestled a bull on national TV for months. A midget dressed as a bull against another midget. You can't take it that seriously. So, every opportunity I'm given I think, 'How can I make this fun?'

Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.

I enjoy being the one on TV. I enjoy being the show.

If the IAAF feel that is the right way to go for TV rights and everything, the rule will stay. As much as I want to be on the podium, tonight is a sad night for athletics.

For a movie actor, the biggest challenge on TV is the number of close-up shots.

Theater is an old thing. It's thousands of years old. TV isn't. Film isn't. We're doing a really old thing.

There are so many stage actors on TV but you wouldn't know they were stage actors. And film and TV actors are going to the stage as well, so the crossover is great now.

In films and TV, actors get chosen based on their capabilities, charisma and the image they carry.

Journalism as theater is what TV news is.

I do strive to be the Andy Kaufman of TV news.

I don't make any distinction between a popular TV series or blockbuster film and doing Shakespeare. They're different, but as long as the material is good and the intention is honourable, it's all the same to me.