Quotes About Performance

In most fields of endeavor there are no easy jobs; there are only graceful ways of performing difficult ones.

I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.

At the end of the day, if you are an actor, you definitely know that you're just work-for-hire.

You have a right to be treated professionally at work, and it's your supervisor's job to make sure all their employees can perform their duties comfortably and safely.

CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying "Our people are our greatest asset." And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work.

Documentation is misleading, because the performance is dead. So the very early works were not documented at all.

It would have been easy to judge effort by how many hours a day passed while I was at work. That's the worst way to measure effort. Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.

For us, performance is everything. If we can get great actors in there who like us, and we really like, we feel pretty confident that we can make a movie work.

After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.

What I love about the theater is the work ethic. I grew up with it.

Whatever role I do, I've got to do the work. It all starts with the body. Get that ready and everything else follows.

When I'm playing Big Momma, it's so much work that all I want to do, when I'm finished, is go back home and just relax and study my lines and get ready for the next day.

There's a little wire work, which is so much fun. You can fly, it's amazing. But I've had to mostly just sort of kung fu, you know, ground work. Footwork and stuff like that.

It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job.

That's where everything starts, as an actor: you've gotta have great writing and great character development, and then you have really great materials to work from.

I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.

I can sing, but it takes an incredible amount of work for me to sound acceptable.

I definitely want to go back to the theatre. It is hard work, it is repetitive, but it is intensely rewarding.

I want to be known for good work first. A good story and good delivery is just that - period.

Once I started performing I knew that's what I wanted to do with my life. But you have to work really hard to be a performer.

In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place. You feel like the soul of this character is now dwelling in you.

Acting has to reach everybody on some level - it's a communication of feeling - but as far as judging the work is concerned, it is, I think, something that actors know about.

You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.

Working with [Kyle Chandler] in the scene was like playing tennis. You work with really talented actors, I think they make other actors look really, really good.