Quotes About Performance

Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

The important thing is to do good work, no matter what medium you do it in.

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

I love being on stage or in front of the camera. My work brings me a lot of joy. It helps me figure out who I am. I'm really lucky that I get to make a living at acting.

In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.

We've all been there, onstage. You say something you don't mean, you make fun of something on accident but... This wasn't that. This wasn't crowd work. This was a rehearsed set. This was pointed.

I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

Any actor will tell you, as soon as your ego and your vanity come into the mix, it destroys your work. Completely destroys it.

One must, however, not just work hard. One must work smart. As the saying goes, the efficient person gets the job done right; the effective person gets the right job done.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

I use men's skis because, honestly, they work better for me. They're longer, they're stiffer, they're harder to turn - but at the same time, they're much more stable.

All that the comedian has to show for his years of work and aggravation is the echo of forgotten laughter.

When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

In real life, you just work for the ordinary self, but in the front of audience you become the superself. That's a completely different thing.

If you make the right choice in casting, your work is nearly done already. You don't have to spend a lot of time directing the actors, because they're so well suited to the parts.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

When I work, I try to eat as much vegetarian as possible. When I do Cupid, I eat vegetarian because I need the energy. I've got those wings on my back.

Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.

Oysters are supposed to enhance your sexual performance, but they don't work for me. Maybe I put them on too soon.

Work in the theater sharpened my verse and my cinema.

I have the absolute utmost respect for soap opera actors now. They work harder than any actor I know in any other medium. And they don't get very much approbation for it.

I'm foremost an actor. I feel embarrassed being compared to the guys who really work at it. I fake it, I make believe I know all about it, which is what you're supposed to do as an actor.