Quotes About Performance

It's a lot of work to read a crummy script.

I've always felt England was a great place for a comic to work. It's an island and the audience can't run very far.

When I work, I live in a fantasy world. It's great. I get to play different characters who inspire me.

Writing for radio really focuses the mind, because you can't rely on thinking "Oh, just pull a funny face at the end of this sketch." You've got to try to work on the words.

Hillary Clinton failed on the economy, just like she's failed on foreign policy. Everything she touched didn't work out. Nothing.

I wanted to find my limitations so I decided to do Shylock. And if I fail? I've never been afraid of that. I have other fears - doing bad work knowingly is the worst fear.

I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.

I think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.

That's what I love about acting, is playing different roles. I want to work for the character, and not make it work for me.

It's simply not enough to just show up and do your work. Superior performance is not, never has been, nor will it ever be, the by-product of ordinary efforts.

I'm expecting a lot from myself, I have set the bar high and I want to do really well for my teammates. I love working out and preparing so I have spent a lot of time doing that.

Clowns work as well as aspirin, but twice as fast.

If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.

I don't work in movies and TV because I adore acting, it's because I adore movies and TV.

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes.

There's so much joy in doing comedy work, and that's one of the reasons I like to do it - because it's just a hilarious day at work.

Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.

If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

Certainly, nothing would stop me coming home for Christmas, if I can. But I've worked a lot in theatre, and in theatre in New York, we work Christmas Day a lot of the time as well.

Theatrical work means too much work or none.

I hate working out. Because I work out for films now solely I come to associate it with work.

It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.

It's easy to be an actor at 8 or 9 in the morning, but it's really important to be focused and work hard at 6 and 7 at night, after you've been on the set for 10 or 12 hours. That time counts, too.