Quotes About Performance

I manage to hide in my movies.

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history.

Theres no keepin up with the brother man I can spell my name in burnt rubber.

I know my role and I play it well.

I still eat rappers. Mmm. Scrumptious.

I am happy to see that more and more young people are once again taking up theatre.

Theatre is my first love. No matter how tight my schedule may be, for theatre I always find time.

All problems with writing and performing come from fear. Fear of exposure, fear of weakness, fear of lack of talent, fear of looking like a fool for trying, for even thinking you could write in the first place. It's all fear. If we didn't have fear, imagine the creativity in the world. Fear holds us back every step of the way.

When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance.

I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready, I think I would have rather been watching.

Well that's a system too but you don't think about it very much because of how flawlessly it works for you.

REQUIRED TO TAKE A COMBINATION OF GINKGO AND VIAGRA, SO YOU CAN REMEMBER WHAT THE FUCK YOU'RE DOING.

When confidence becomes a muscle memory, panic is replaced by peak performance.

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.

At last she got it: concept is incidental; execution is all.

For men, incompetence was a gambit: I'm terrible at this; you do it .

The show must go on, even when it's not the show you expected to be in.

But it's not easy, and that, I realize, is what makes the circus the circus--doing what's difficult and making it look simple. It's the presence of one thing I've never had but always needed and didn't even know I was missing. Magic. And suddenly, I'm no longer afraid.

Icy and earthy, Helen Mirren is a rare, regal presence in a movie age that values the plebeian over the patrician and mass over class. Lauded with an Oscar and an Emmy for playing both Queen Elizabeths, Mirren has matched her cool aristocracy with a boldness of performance and display.

When I walk on stage, it's a release valve for me. Life is stressful anyway, so therefore, when I walk on stage, it releases all those stressful situations, and I feel good about myself.

My team fills two separate drink bottles for me in the car. One is water, and the other has orange juice. I just turn a valve and go from water to juice... to adjust my glucose levels.

It's surprisingly hard to play a vampire and feel believable. I mean, you want to be able to at least believe yourself.

You become like a vampire when you're pregnant: your senses are so sensitive, and your emotions are so heightened - that helps with performance because you really feel things.

It's kind of a dream to play a vampire in a movie.