Quotes About Performance

You work with seasoned actors, and sometimes you realize that they phone it in.

I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make it good the first time.

I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.

I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.

My mind-set, my mental game and my hard work is at a first-round level. I play at a first-round level. I've done things that most guys haven't done.

And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.

What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.

I am definitively qualitative about work.

It was another day to go to work, and try to play and play well.

Live theatre provides a rush you can't get in film or television. But it is the TV and film work that offers the leisure to go off and do a play.

I was so fortunate to sing and work with so many amazing performers and artists.

I totally love to act. I don't care if it's a musical, a comedy. I just like to work and interact with other people.

Not every show has to work equally well. It just has to work better than any competitor because then we can outbid for the content.

There is also the guitar player Pat Metheny with whom I'd like to work with: he is so elegant and so emotional when he plays that I am sure that, together, we could make a good team.

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Happiness mainly depends on man's ability to work and the way in which he does it.

A live audience with live reactions feeds a different sort of acting that will then inform your film work, and vice versa.

I demand excellence from the people I work with.

As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the world what you have and how proud you are of it, that's always fun.

My favorite thing in the whole is getting to work with the actors.

It's part of your job as an actor to put your personal problems behind you and work. Good actors can do that.

The State trained us to make other people's terrible jokes work, which is the other part of the game when you're here.