Quotes About Performance

Even though there's reasons to try things that may or may not work, it's still a real intimate way to finish the song with everybody right there in the band just locked in.

You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.

There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.

I work primarily for the camera-it's not something I really talk about a lot, but it's part of the way I am as a movie actor. The camera is my girl, as it were.

With comedy, you really want to work things out beforehand.

In order to be an artist and an actor, like tackling the classics in the theater as well as film, there's lots of discipline, lots of work, physical work put in.

I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.

You realise the responsibility of carrying a film on your shoulders when people are investing money in you and they recognise the hard work you have to put in.

I might be shy, but in the field, where I have to do my work, I do it. I let my bat speak for myself.

Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

What you picture in your mind, your mind will go to work to accomplish. When you change your pictures you automatically change your performance

Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

You never know, until you put a play up for an audience, whether it's going to work. Things you think will work don't, and things you're not sure about work really well.

Even if I'm playing a bad guy, I work hard to make him multi-leveled and interesting.

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

You know, I've kind of been lucky enough to always work with established actors or big names or people that are really popular or infamous for doing what they do and doing it well, I guess.

If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

For me, the key is always trying to find the connection between the audience and the character I'm playing. That's important to me, in any work I do.

I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour work.

Good work instead of long prayers.

People ask me how did you choose the part and how did you prepare for this work? I just learned the lines and showed up; I don't know what else to say because that's all I know how to do.

I think the reward for doing comedy is doing the comedy itself. You get to go to work everyday and laugh and make other people laugh and to me there's no greater reward than that.