Quotes About Performance

I have acted in over 50 films and 15 daily soaps, but the thrill I feel while performing for my home audience is unparalleled.

That is the job of a comedian: To take unpleasant subject matter and forcibly, with his hands, wring the funny out of it.

I was 17 years old and in my first band, and we played at the university. I was kind of a gawky, unpopular teenager and there was about 400 people smiling and dancing to what we were doing.

I think the fun of following the movie box office and stocks is very similar to the fun of sports - all three combine passion and unpredictability.

All theater is unpredictable. That's the definition of theater.

Passion and true passion is actually very unpredictable. It heads in unexpected directions because it's constantly seeking out new challenges. But what's really interesting is that passion ultimately is necessary for sustained extreme performance improvement.

My stage show is raw and unpredictable.

There's something really exciting about playing someone where you're given license to be unpredictable.

All good actors are unpredictable, and a little crazy in a good way, because they feel more secure playing other people than themselves.

What I've discovered and really confirmed to myself is that opera really likes loud colours, and you need something bold, something savage, unpredictable, passionate. You can't really run a two-hour opera round some muted murmuring.

I come from a theater background, so usually, at the start, you know what happens and where the character goes and everything. But with TV, it's really unpredictable.

Actors seem brave and unpredictable, but they're spontaneous as a tax return.

I don't develop anything. I don't practice, I don't rehearse. I just go out there, and it's just amazing and unpredictable and spontaneous every single time. It's the most cultivating incredible performance that you can go and see live for the amount of money that you can see it for.

A constant goal of mine is to try to put myself back in the place when I wrote something - not just to perform it on a surface level, but to re-enter that headspace, that emotion. That's the point of a live show - for it to feel immediate and present and a little bit unpredictable.

Unpredictable - that's a word that us as coaching staff hate.

Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.

I never don't know my lines. I never take the audition pages into the room. I end up relying on them or looking at them too much, and it makes me feel unprepared, so I always learn my lines without fail.

Pressure comes from being unprepared.

Being unprepared heightens nerves.

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.

Michael Chandler's performance in his UFC debut was great. His opponent was great, but it felt like he was mentally unprepared to face Michael Chandler. He crumbled to his pressure and movement early.

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.

I just got to do a challenging scene with Jennifer Aniston! That's unreal to me.