Quotes About Performance

Work faster, smarter and harder

I have a hard time watching myself! Usually I do the work, and then I leave it. So I pretend like I'm not on TV every week.

Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

Good work is good work wherever it is.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

I'm inspired by good work. Whether it is a great performance by another actor, a piece of art, or someone doing something altruistic.

It's so interesting to watch Ben Stiller work because he just knows what's funny.

If you are working with people with whom you do NOT do your best work, you are out of integrity.

Marlon once said to me about being an actor: Can you imagine going to work every day and pretending to be someone else?

On the day of the show, I sit down with someone that speaks very good English and someone who speaks the local language very well and work out what I'm going to say.

I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.

I think every actor should be always grateful when they work.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

I think having healthy relationships makes me feel much more confident and available to do good work as an actor.

The media and the interviews are great, but that does not help me make a call on the field. To me, I've got to work the game, and I've got to be great at it.

I would love to work on Broadway, but I don't know that it would manifest itself in musical theater.... I have terrible stage fright that I'd have to get over.

In the end, the work shows if you're good.

I don't need to go out there and trick guys, and I don't need to go out there and be perfect. I've just got to attack the strike zone, let my stuff work and get much better results that way.

One person with the ability of half a person doing the work of four people.

Fast bowling is not an easy job. Especially if you are also a batsman as well as being a fast bowler, a fast bowler has to work harder than any other cricketer on his fitness.

I'd love to work with Michelle Williams. I think that she's incredible. She's such a great actress and I love her.

It's fun to watch a true-blue movie star at work. They're really unbelievably charismatic. They understand camera angles.

Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.

I think you're only as good as the work that you do.