Quotes About Performance

You really have to work hard to create a three-dimensional character. You have to rehearse and explore and take your time. You can't just memorize your lines and do it on the fly.

You hope you can fix it with the personnel that you have. On offense, we are doing some great things, but we did not execute. This group of men that I represent likes to work hard.

I do not think that anybody should get paid for lousy performance. I've said that for a long time. If you work hard and you do good, you get paid well.

As an actor, all you want to do is to work and do good work.

When you deal with a film that takes place in Europe, and you're going to work in English, you'd better work with European actors.

I have a work-out regime; I am not a maniac. It sounds cliche, but stand-up comedy, doing a one-man show, helps keep me young, and yes, it is exhausting, but I don't collapse.

We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics.

A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.

I want to go out there and do the best work I can.

As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.

I was trained in the theater, so I really learned a lot about how to work with the camera, just technically speaking, it's been an amazing learning curve.

The touring was crazy, it was a lot of work. But I enjoyed it.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

Figure skating is not a hobby. Its my work, which I want to do, and do well.

Implementation beats oration.

You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.

Most written work is a conversation between the editor and the writer, that the writer essentially fulfills in public, and the editor provides the stage for that to happen as well as the prompts.

Usually when you start the characters, the first thing is the script. Your design work is about telling the story. It's later that casting comes into play, but it's a huge component.

Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.

I feel vulnerable when I am underprepared. This applies to underpreparedness with just about anything, especially work.

I just want to play interesting characters, and I want to work with the best directors I can work with.

It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.

I don't like it when people ask actors to work for free - on the fringe - as if it's some kind of virtue. That annoys me - actors should be paid well.