Quotes About Performance

When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests.

American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game.

What I like about theater is its team work. Theater is also all-time creativity.

In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.

Using the energy in a scene can really cut the fat off of something and streamline it. It can make it work for you and activate it for you in a way.

You can have a great time on a film and the chemistry can seem great but then you look at the finished film and it just doesn't quite gel, something doesn't quite work.

I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.

I believe a great performer is someone who sounds just as great live as they do in the studio and vice versa. They should know how to work the stage.

I'm an actress, and that's my work and my passion.

In the end, all critics should be guided by this one principle: Is this piece of work [TV show, movie, play, concert, album, restaurant] succeeding at what it set out to do?

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.

The only thing hard about being an actor is being out of work. So, when you get a job - that part ain't hard at all.

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.

It doesn't matter what medium I perform, I just love to perform in general, if it's good work.

I find if my body feels well and I exercise regularly, I think better, work better and feel better.

I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.

I will take the acting work when I can get it. I am not really an actor, that's always apparent but it's work and I'll take it and am always glad for it.

Any work I do I think is important...like in acting there are no small parts- only small actors.

It's tough to watch a movie you're in - you put everything into it, you want everything to work, and you never know until you see it all together.

Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

Being able to work with Ridley Scott on this film is like being able to play on the Olympic team for actors.

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.