Quotes About Performance

Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so immaterial and something this immaterial is very difficult to collect. Its difficult to buy, its how we can buy immaterial art.

Some people have heard of The Method, which originally goes back to Stanislavski... he gave you six major pointers whereby you became that character and tried to fool your mind psychologically. That's it in a nutshell. Daniel Day Lewis is an example of somebody like that who stays in character between takes.

I could not be one of those actors who stays in character all day long. I'd go mad.

My job stays the same, whether we're acting by candlelight, against a green screen, or on a stage somewhere. Which is just as well, because I really couldn't do anything else.

One of the things I learned very early on was that if you cast the show correctly, and if you've created the right energy in the room, the solution is also in the room. The solution doesn't necessarily come from someone, but if everybody is working in a very steadfast and rigorous way, then everything you're looking for is in the room.

When the picture was finished, they took me into the sound room and then I screamed more for about five minutes just steady screaming, and then they'd cut that in and add it.

As a quarterback, I always feel like it's my job to be that steady, calm presence in there.

Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.

Anthony Mackie in 'The Hurt Locker' is everything an actor can hope to be. So rock steady in his portrayal that you immediately forget every performance he may have previously given, and focus only on the character in front of you.

An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.

It's important as a team that you don't get too excited with a win and you don't get too disappointed with a loss. You have to stay very steady, very focused on that middle ground.

A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.

I usually eat a pretty big steak the night before I compete.

The night before I compete, I like to have steak. Meat is especially important for female athletes because it provides them with the nutrients they need to perform at their best.

I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of me, and I will eat it.

Most people are like, 'Oh, you shouldn't eat steak. It's so heavy.' But I love steak the day before a meet. Or the day of. I try to get that red meat in, some extra energy.

You're out there to perform. You're out there to entertain. Whatever position that you're put in, be it a heel or a babyface, go out there steal the show.

If you're not prepared to go out and steal the show every night, your job is going to be much more on the line on a regular basis. If you can master that, that's something that you never really have to worry about.

You can't steal every scene. There are scenes in which you need to sit back and do a lot less, verbally, physically.

I've been around where I knew other actors were going to steal the scene, and I don't compete with them.

Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra.

I don't know if you can ever steal a scene from Louis C.K. or Melissa McCarthy. I think that's kind of impossible.

I go out there to steal the show every night.

I don't want to get on base and just run for the sake of running. What good is it if you steal 100 bases and get caught 60 times?