Quotes About Performance

I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience.

I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes -- which is what I always try to do in every movie -- then I feel like I'm doing my job.

When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions.

Sometimes as an actor you're struggling to make things work. That was never the case for me with [Big Little Lies script]. It just kind of flowed out.

That's the weirdest thing about television for me is that you're getting feedback in the middle of the work.

The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.

Comedians are the most challenging people for me to shoot. Because you're not actually in the dialogue with them, they are performing. When I work with a comedian, I become their audience.

I don't want to sound like too much of a drama queen! But I'm not going to tell you, 'Oh, it's just so much fun.' It's work [working on film].

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

All the truly great stand-ups say, "I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work." To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.

I would like to do something really big and then something really small, and see what it's like to work in that way, but in front of a live audience.

Well, the nice thing about animation, you don't even really have to account for yourself. All of the physical stuff that you work on as an actor, you just throw away.

Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.

Financial "synergy" is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice.

The first step toward making the worker achieving is to make work productive.

In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.

If you work with Jim Carrey, you're working with the best.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.

I would never not work on the part without it playing. That's what being an actor is. You use everything that's influenced you to help you get out of yourself or be more creative.

In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think the machinery is so heavy and demanding that you would leave the actors alone for a long time.

I love to work. I really enjoy getting up really early and driving downtown. I just really love the process of acting and being on a series.