Quotes About Performance

You find little ways to keep your mind at peace so that you can, at the end of the day, do the most important thing, which is do a good job.

Just to get the basic fundamentals and empathy - I think that's the most important thing to bring to it if you've acted in the past and are now a director: the empathy.

I've had the chance to watch Metallica's James Hetfield from the side of the stage night after night, listening to his monitors, and his playing is so perfect. Slash is an amazing lead guitarist, but when you listen to his rhythm playing, you can hear how he pulls everything together with such a great feel, which is the most important thing.

I am an actor, and that's the most important thing to me. I cannot imagine a life where I would be anything else but an actor, so putting all my energy into a shot comes naturally to me.

Theater is the most important thing in life for me.

The most important thing for me is to have as much control over what's going on in front of me as I possibly can, so because of that, I don't play to a click track, and I don't have anything on the grid. Everything is triggered by me. Everything is played by me. Everything is within my control.

I feel like, for an actor, eyes are the most important thing. So I'm a little obsessed with eye creams.

I do not speak very often to the press. I just have it in my head. I do my talking out there on the field, which is the most important thing.

I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile.

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA.

But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.

Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial, that's not how people really behave.

I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits.

Doug Motel makes 'conscious comedy'. He makes me laugh, and he makes me think.

And I think that motherhood has made me a better actress as well.

I would love to do some motion capture work just to be able to challenge myself.

When I'm telling jokes, I'm constantly in motion. I can't stand in one place.

You still have to enjoy the tour games. If you go out there and just go through the motions, you can easily get into bad habits, you lose a bit of rhythm or a bit of form and then things can go pretty bad pretty quickly.

It feels like a lot of times when I'm watching people perform, they're just going through the motions and checking boxes. Costume - good, hair - good, make-up - good, death drop - good; it's like they're just going through a checklist of what makes a 'good performance' but it's not entertaining, it's very disposable.

Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.

I like fighting people that scare me a little bit. People that scare me seem to motivate me, and when you motivate me, you get the best performance out of me.

If you can't motivate yourself to get up and play in front of 30,000-40,000 people, then you're not in the right job.

I am very fortunate to be doing something I completely love, so it is certainly not hard to get motivated. Watching people sing along and put their hands in the air is a very powerful thing. I'm 63, but I don't feel it. I feel like I'm in my 40s. I enjoy life.