Quotes About Performance

A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.

I work with intuition. With interpreters. I have my own method. I know exactly what I want from actors. Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear.

In other words, If you don't take action, you won't get any results You are not your resume, you are your work

Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.

A brilliant author or businesswoman or senator or software engineer is brilliant only in tiny bursts. The rest of the time, they're doing work that most any trained person could do.

Even if you know a character really well, there's no formula for what jokes will work and what won't.

Flash, take the game off. I'll go out and do the work.

One thing I've been doing since I was a little kid and that's score touchdowns so if somebody needs somebody to get in the red zone and do some work, I could probably still do that pretty well.

Grief affects job performance, so giving workers time off to grieve can lead to stronger outcomes at work.

I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists.

It's not really about confidence. It's just something that isn't really in the vocabulary of what goes on at work. The writers write and the actors act.

It's a whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

There is work, and there is pleasure, Acting is pleasure.

Sometimes you choose the wrong actor, he could be the best actor ever, but hes not cast in the right part then it doesnt work.

It's so much fun! Girls just think that it is all about popularity, but it's not. You have to work really hard if you want to be good at cheerleading. It's just like any other sport!

I always find that it's when a script is not detailed, then I have to do more work as an actor.

I want my work to be judged, not me.

For me, the singer is actually the most important element. When I work with someone, it all comes down to whether I like the singer or not.

With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it's going to work. And then you get the response. It's great when it's good.

When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.

Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.

When you stop worrying about all the things that can go along with playing in a band and you let go and do it because it's fun to do, things seem to work.

Improvisation helps because you get what's on the page and you make it a little more palatable to your tongue. And that's the beauty of creating and being spontaneous. That's the way I love to work.

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater