Quotes About Performance

When you sing a song the way I sing it, you have to use your whole body. It's almost like working out.

There's this great fantasy of going to work, every day, and getting to play out what people think my life is, as a successful actor.

If your in business your in show business. The moment you get to work your on stage. Give your performance of your life.

Carrying 200 pounds of velvet and satin around a stage for 90 minutes - that's man's work, let me tell you.

I've had the pleasure to work with a lot of very great actors. And they're too different to say who's the best.

At international level, giving the ball away doesn't work too often.

TV is a completely different discipline, which I think I am still learning about. You just have to learn how to work fast and pace yourself.

I don't really think it matters if you go into stage or TV as long as you do a bit of character work, really.

I'm not fussy about the medium I work in. I'll do television radio, you know. I have to, because that's the only way I can do continually good roles.

I mean, the only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

I've done some good work and some not-good work.

I haven't been out of work since the day I took my pants off.

I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.

It's one of the oldest theatrical adages: never work with children or animals.

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.

Honestly, acting is the most work when you're unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. It's the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.

[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself.

It's fun to work on location because you get the look and feel of everything, but it's nice to be on a stage because you can control the elements.

I'd like to do some more classical work if I do some more theatre.

I have infinite capacity to do more work as long as you don't mind that my quality approaches zero.

I'm constantly involved in theater, looking at theater, trying to do work in theater, support theater. And that's kind of my creative passion.

Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.

There's the acting side of it so you work with a coach. Dissect a script. If it's a character, then obviously a character study. Just depends on if there is training needed.

Every actor wants to find a piece of work that's innovative and powerful and moving.