Quotes About Performance

It's an enormous relief to go to work and be an actor and not be worried about writing.

You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.

I'm very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.

I'm gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I'll be there for two weeks. And I'll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates.

People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice.

If you don't back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn't mean a thing.

Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.

The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.

I come home more exhausted after a day of emotional work on set than I've ever had in any sporting event I've played or anything. It's draining. But it's also part of the fun.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

As soon as I step on that stage, nothing matters. I don't think of it as work. It's just so much fun.

The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.

When I model, I pretty much blank. You can't think too much or it doesn't work.

When I step on the field, it's on. I know it's time to go to work.

In a way, a lot of my work is in the re-writing once it is cast, as I adapt to the rhythms of how the roles are played out by the actors.

Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare 'entertainment.' It's not 'entertainment.' It's culture.

Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.

The first myth of management is that it exists. The second myth of management is that success equals skill.

There is no human feeling to the US securities markets and sometimes no discernible evidence of human intelligence either. But they work.

I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.

Im a firm believer that actors take to work who they arent at home. People show their other self in their art or in their work.

A live action movie is work, and an animated movie is you showing up in your pajamas once every three months, or in my case, just a splash of baby powder. It's not any kind of heavy lifting.

Id just love to have an audience and its the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.

It's fun to do voiceover work, although you still have to act. But it doesn't involve memorizing lines, and you don't have to dress up.