Quotes About Performance

If you have unskilled people who work poorly together, no amount of process will save your projects.

I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you.

If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare

I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.

And I always like to stress, it's not a quota, not a set-aside, it's not about race, it's about giving opportunities to demonstrate their abilities to do work with the Federal Government.

People who are prone to guilt tend to work harder and perform better than people who are not guilt-prone, and are perceived to be more capable leaders.

Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.

I'll probably stick to comedy for the time being. I mean, a great piece of work is a great piece of work, and I'm up for good work anytime. But I do love comedy!

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.

Whenever I do a comedy show I still just read poems, some of which are intentionally funny and some of which are just bizarre. The mix seems to work well.

Part of the work is determining through what instrument you are playing. Actors are physical, olympian storytellers and we should be able to create entire landscapes with nothing.

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

That is one of the reasons one enjoys acting. Now and again, you get scenes where you work with somebody really good and you have a good time trying to make it really work and really work well.

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

I'm a comic, so I like to stay nocturnal. I work 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.

When you improvise, you work off the laughs from the audience, but when you step on stage to do standup, it's silent.

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.

But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, you have the luxury of working on it over time.

Cyndi Lauper knows how to work a crowd.

I enjoy the work I do in comedies. It's a valid test of your creative abilities.

It's fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say 'he's not acting, he's being himself.' Well it's hard to be yourself, it's the hardest job there is.

I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.