Quotes About Performance

Any acting job that I ever got, I always treated it like I was a neophyte, I didn't know what I was doing and I was going to work just as hard as I do on my stand-up.

Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.

It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.

I do a lot of Vegas work and work with the comedians.

I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don't want to construct the show to prove something.

Jack Benny was, without a doubt, the bravest comedian I have ever seen work. He wasn't afraid of silence. He would take as long as it took to tell the story.

When I go onstage, I'm going to work ...I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it's like a romantic song or a happy song.

For an actor to go to work every day is an extreme blessing.

The main thing to do is relax and let your talent do the work.

What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible.

An interpreter must give his blood to the work interpreted.

I would say most comedians have a very cynical worldview of the way the world can work. It's almost like if you didn't, you couldn't be a comedian.

I was a big "Blue Valentine" fan. I really loved that movie. And I thought the performances were just unbelievably real, which is certainly what I always strive for in my work.

I'm not the type of player to sit home and practice scales and work on runs.

You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.

I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.

I think I work harder on the pitch, I cover more ground and my passing is more accurate.

What you try to do, as an actor, is just make it work somehow.

Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because of the size of the place. To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself with live performances ages before a release.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.

To function as an actress, I have to be in love. I have to have that incentive to work.