Quotes About Performance

You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.

If you're funny, you can find a stage to get on. If you're good, you'll start to get work and eventually get paid.

'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?

Chicago was where I realized that improv is its own thing, its own art form. And through that, you kind of develop a work ethic of not selling it short.

In order to be able to work with somebody in acting, you've first got to think that person's a good actor before you can enjoy working with them. I guess that goes with the trust.

I started off on stage because it was the only work I could get. I haven't been back for 11 years. I think any stage experience is good experience, as far as being an actor is concerned.

That's pretty tough talk from a guy who has fewer days at work this year than he has houses.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

Work in the theater is more fun than fun.

I truly think any preparation you do only helps and adds dimension and complexity to the work [as an actor].

Pitching is what you have best on the day you work, and if you cant get your fastball over the plate, then maybe you can win with your curve.

Some movies work and some don't.

I just want to do good work.

I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work.

The most important thing, when playing characters with chemistry, is being able to work off the other actor and be supported.

I just work. I'm doing shows, and I get love everywhere I go, so I would say I'm doing something right. I don't really sit here and dwell on it. I just do what I gotta do, and keep moving.

The joy is when you work with great actors, it just comes to life in a way that you never even imagined.

Matthew Broderick and Megan Mullally were unbelievable to work with in 'How to Succeed.

Acting, it's the disappearance of self, disappearance of your own needs and your own wants and the kind of embracing of the character that makes it work.

It's almost like I get to be more theatrical when I work in voiceover.

I want to inspire people with my work, whether I'll be dancing, acting, on the big screen, or in the production room.

The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.

At each stage of work the horse must be taken to his limit, but never over.