Quotes About Performance

I grew up doing stage work as a child and as a teenager, so the stage is my home where I feel most comfortable.

I want the new band to work together for a while, and when we're ready we'll invite every major record company to see us.

O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

I've made a career over the last seventeen years of mostly playing men in uniform, especially cops. The one thing for an actor that is death, is if you're bored. The boredom will show in your work.

When you're going for a joke, you're stuck out there if it doesn't work. There's nowhere to go. You've done the drum role and the cymbal clash and you're out on the end of the plank.

It's always fun when you're doing the CGI stuff, to actually get to work with someone who is real, who's there.

I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they're wonderful actors.

If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick. Same thing.

My real experience with video games was watching other people play. That's why a lot of my work isn't really about playing. It's about watching video games.

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.

I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.

That's an amazing gift as an actor - to be able to say I have an audience in so many countries in the world and that people know my work.

If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate.

Putting 100 percent into your life, your work, or sport, doesn't give you the right to expect success at whatever you are trying to do - it just provides the opportunity.

I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too.

How can you expect someone to get a good day's work if they are interrupted all day?

What I love about doing musical work is that it heightens the emotion.

I just don't like it when people get credited for their voice work and it's really shitty. It's really thin, there's nothing to it, there's no meat behind it. It's, like, "Oh, it's a celebrity."

I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.

I love the Olympic Games. The Olympics are an event that few can fathom but all can enjoy, and that's why athletes work our whole lives to put on the greatest show on Earth.

A beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly.

I'm glad I took that time to work really hard on the music. I feel the effects of that now in a positive way with my connection with the audience.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.