Quotes About Performance

If you're a leading actor you don't work with another actor. You work with a lady.

I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.

I usually work from the inside out but sometimes in comedy it's fun to work from the outside in.

Most people don't like challenges at work. Actors love challenges at work.

I just had a really good time when I did my voice work for Call of Duty. Ive had nothing but great interaction with Activision.

It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor. It doesn't work very often in my experience.

If you are going to be on TV for however many years, you want to make sure that you have writers that are giving you something to work with, and I got that in spades.

When I'm working, I don't wake up and say, 'OK, time to go be intense.' I just look at whatever scenes we're working on that day and break them down - just real intense everyday work.

When you come to actually act, it's a game. It may be a very serious game, but it's still a game. If you lose that sense of play, the work suffers.

I think the theater work and the on-camera work feed off each other. My theater work has become more simple, and my on-camera work has become more energized or more spontaneous.

The theater is a place that doesn't always but can reward hard work and tenacity, unlike television.

I find, surprisingly, that actors are liberated in their work if there's stuff going on around them, because they can't think too much about who they're supposed to be.

I'm always excited to work with actors.

Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.

Success is fleeting. It may not have to do with you but how your work is received.

I like to take a break, but at the same time, I think most actors are not very good at sitting around doing nothing because we like to work.

When not writing and directing, my bread and butter comes from acting and stunt work. I've been fortunate enough to be part of some amazing productions.

[Oz the Great] it's not like I had to imagine things, and as far as wire work goes, I had fun with it.

Most of my fans are young; they pay for their own tickets and work really hard to be able to come, and so I want to give all of them the best show.

I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would enhance my ability to get acting work.

Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away.

I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They've go to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I've got to be conscious of that.

I sort of pride myself in my dissatisfaction with my work. I've always been concerned with buying the hype, and having that make your performances suffer.