Quotes About Performance

I think sometimes adding pressure can be good.

I've played a lot of people where someone will say, 'This is based on my sister, and such and such happened.' But I don't think I ever played someone who, 'This is their name, and this is their address, and this is what they looked like.'

People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.'

Life in the NFL is an adjustment.

I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.

I've always had people come up to me to say that they admire the way I play, and then they tell me they're not United fans. That's always been nice.

There are many actors I really like and whose work I admire.

I admire 'Urinetown.'

In MMA, there isn't time to admire your work until it's all over with. In sports-entertainment, I can admire what I'm doing while it's happening.

I admire anyone who does stage all their life. It's so tough, and it also made me really appreciate how lucky I am with film. You have to do your own makeup with stage, and you have to do so many un-glamorous things.

I'll tell you something: I am such an admirer of Glenn Close.

An Elias performance is worth the price of admission.

If you are too into the fans and adoration and the world thinking you are the greatest, then you do not perform well.

I love physical comedy. I adore comedy of any kind.

I'm not going to take a show unless I'm not sure I can do it. You have to have that sort of adrenaline.

I've never been cold during a big game. It's the adrenaline. You're always moving.

It took me a lot to learn to control adrenaline; and other sports you use adrenaline to your advantage.

It's always hard for me to go to sleep after a show, just because you still have adrenaline going.

I've always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he's been in front of the camera. He doesn't have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

There's not a whole lot of advantage for a company to be public.

It's always good to see guys perform under adverse situations.

I believe now the industry has seen a different side of me. They have seen me in advertisements, they have seen me act, and now they have seen me as an all-rounder, complete with my dancing ability.

Advertising has always been part show biz.

I would advise anyone starting out as a singer/songwriter to play live as much possible. You never know who might be in the audience.