Quotes About Performance

I would like to work in both comedy and drama. I'd love to do a really juicy drama that's just really real.

My theatrical background was in the great work of the South African playwright Athol Fugard.

I love to work, so give me what you've got. I'll play a tree, if you want me to. If you want fruit on it, then pay me more money. Otherwise, I just love to work.

In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it's the recording or the performance side.

Lazy and superficial men and women do not produce superior work.

I was shy and a hard worker, so acting was a way to focus whatever nervous energy I was experiencing onto a goal.

When I am told that I am a huge star, I accept it, knowing that success is relative - the films I do have to work.

For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.

If you see me doing a new stand-up special, it probably means I've been out of work for a while.

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.

I was a hard worker, and I always knew my lines.

I found doing that kind of comedy without an audience is just... for me, it's almost impossible. You need the audience to do their half of the work.

I'm such a fan of actors, and also enjoy watching them work, so that I can help their acting in any way I can.

I'm always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

Attractive things work better.

I want to make guys put the ball in play. If I give up ten hits, then I give up ten hits. But I want to work on making them earn it.

I think if you work as an actress and are supposed as a character to be in love with some actor, then to some extent you do have to be in love with him.

Work as hard as you can to become as good an individual player as you can to help your team win

Kissing in the movies is a real art - figuring out where to put your heads so it looks good on camera. I have had other co-stars who couldn't work that out, which made it a lot harder for me.

All of the products I take help me feel like I'm getting the maximum amount out of my workouts and out of my practice work. They're a big part of preparing and recovering each week.

I do pauses, pauses work for me

The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.

Trust your actors. That's why I work with the same actors time and time again. I encourage them to change the dialogue to achieve one thing: keep the characters honest.

I was so happy I didn't have to work that night. That was the truth, because show business is about the hardest profession in the world.