Quotes About Performance

I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'

I have big problems with the left side of my body. I'm taking pills so I can play. I take five pills before every game.

We're more effective than birth control pills.

Sometimes I hear the crowd cheering, and most of the time your body's on auto pilot, so sometimes even after I do a floor routine, I'm like, 'Did I really just do that?'

On 'Masters of Sex,' especially in the pilot, everybody was showing up word-perfect, and you're expected to show up word-perfect.

I'd love to play a commercial pilot on screen.

I'm a commercial pilot before I was an actor.

You read so many scripts, especially pilots, that really feel like marbles in your mouth when you go to read them out loud.

Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

Acting on stage is a living organism you can never pin down, and I believe the audience feeds off that, too.

I had to pinch myself a couple of times that I was actually on stage at the Atlantic with Carol Kane.

I loved what I did. I remember cruel mothers who would pinch their children to make them cry in a scene, but my mother encircled me with affection.

Janet Carroll and Robert Pine, Chris Pine's dad, were in my first play, and they were so astonishingly good, I felt it raised my game instantly.

After 'Pink,' I wanted to do something that would challenge me further as an actor.

I did a little movie called 'Touch of Pink,' where I played a Cary Grant-type guy, which I thought was a lot of fun, and I thought I was moderately successful in my own interpretation of Cary Grant.

It's very difficult to be funny musically. I think I achieved It with 'The Pink Panther.'

I have only played in two first-class matches with a pink ball and both of them were over inside two days.

The first time I performed onstage was at church. Then I formed a rock cover band - Pink Floyd and Joan Jett. We'd play at birthday parties, since it wasn't exactly church material.

If I could play Jean Valjean, I think that would be the pinnacle.

The Grammys are just the pinnacle of music.

Being in a Marvel film is the pinnacle of secrecy training.

Millions around the world see Formula One as the pinnacle of motorsport, and I firmly believe that we should do whatever it takes to keep this accolade. Traction control, automatic gear changes, and launch control isn't my definition of the 'pinnacle of motorsport.'

This is the pinnacle of the basketball world, you know, in the NBA you're playing against the best guys in the world, and best defensive players in the world, so you have to be able to outthink them and make the right decisions.

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.