Quotes About Performance

It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.

I would love to do a Broadway play. I would love to do big screen also, motion picture.

People just expect you to show up, be a cartoon character of yourself, take your money and go home. But don't screw up to the point where you're gonna be out of the picture.

As an actor, you really want to respect and honor the script. You want to try to be in the moment and you also realize that you're one part of a bigger picture and when they call action, you have your dance.

When I'm singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy.

When I do shows, I take pictures and make the fans feel like family. All of that really matters. That's the cheat code if you ain't got a hit.

Doing those costume pictures was wonderful.

There's some pictures of me playing hollow bodies, but I never last long. I always come back to the acoustic.

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

Everyone in a band has a big ego - they love having pictures taken.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'

An actor really is a kind of intermediary between an audience and the piece, whether it's a play or movie.

You can be more creative in acting by bringing your character to life and bringing a piece of you that wasn't there before. You could have five different actors play one role, and all five of them would be so different because each person brings a different piece of them into it.

I'd love to do a perlod piece. Maybe 'Caesar and Cleopatra.' I could do both roles- at one-and-a-half salaries.

I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic.

Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece.

I'm a big believer that an actor should be able to pick up any piece of material and act it, the way a good musician can.

I wanted to make a classical piece that was actually designed to be a CD, not designed for performance.

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

Doing a piece on film is completely different from doing it onstage.

With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.

Very often, if I know the orchestra doesn't know a piece or it's a new piece, I have main ideas about it. But then we start to play and I never talk about places where they played so beautiful and so clear in the beginning that there is nothing to say.

First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.

I don't believe there is any character that one can play for that long and not bring a piece of you to it.