Quotes About Performance

I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

It is not my role to go out and do the power hitting. My job is to play my natural game.

I think I have a natural hitting ability.

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

I know I'm not a good actor; I just don't have that natural ability to perform when someone narrates a scene. What I lack in talent I make up with my brain.

If you don't do it the way coaches ask you to do something, and someone else does it the way it's supposed to be done, that's just natural life.

I want to be in a more natural state while doing acting.

I'm supposed to be the guy who hates naturalism.

Be Funny. Be naturally funny. If you're not, get out of the business. Be compassionate.

I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.

As a child, I was mischievous and an attention-seeker, so acting came naturally to me.

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

I don't overact, so people think that I naturally act well. I underplay my roles, and that has worked for me.

Writing is the hardest for me. It doesn't come as naturally as the other forms, and I feel far more dread during the process. Acting and voice acting are more mercurial and maybe come a little easier to me.

For me, that's natural. The instinct to score comes naturally and if you have it, you've got to go to it.

Acting isn't that hard, really. I mean, I think that people make a big deal about it, but you just kind of try to say your lines naturally.

Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.

I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.

As the lead actor, you naturally get involved with a show.

Comedy is probably a lot harder for me. Maybe it's because I've been doing drama for so long or maybe it's because... you don't want to search for a laugh; you can't try to be funny, you just have to naturally be funny or be in a situation that's funny.

I don't really know how to act that much. I'm quite good at comedy, but it's mostly acting naturally.

If you get too deep into the history, what often happens to a lot of us actors is that we become stilted. We forget that we're reading about something that happened a hundred years ago. If we don't put the human emotion that would naturally be in there, we end up being stilted instead of being human beings.

It's fun playing the bad guy. It comes naturally.