Quotes About Performance

To play anybody real and famous is very scary.

Going out and trying new stuff on an audience is a scary thing.

If I want to tell a story to 10 people, I don't need a star. If I want to tell it to 10,000 people, the best case scenario is you get an actor and a star.

For us, as hoopers and as basketball players, doesn't matter the scenario, the scene. True hoopers and true basketball players are going to get out and perform.

It's a first for me. It's my first nude scene.

When I'm on set, I don't really think about what an audience is going to think about a scene. I'm just thinking about how I can make it best. And how I can enjoy myself most.

Acting in a scene is easy.

If there is an action scene, I want to do everything myself.

The best scene is the last great scene I did.

You can't act for the editing. You just go in and do the scene the way you think is right.

Jimi was always at The Scene when he was in New York and we played many times together. He was just everywhere - he went out and jammed everywhere he was.

We only did probably two, three takes on every scene we did, at the most.

They're called 'action scenes' because they do the acting for you. You don't have to act in action scenes. The action does it all for you. It's great.

I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.

I try to play serious scenes a little funny and the comedy a little serious.

Long scenes of emotion are quite difficult - you've got to build up to them and make sure you're in the right emotional space.

During 'Race 2,' I had to lean down completely because there was a lot of action scenes in it.

Love scenes feel very mechanical. But our whole job is to make it look real.

Whatever headspace you need to live in for your character is sort of where you stay in between scenes.

When people ask me what I do, I tell them that I 'do things in front of people.' I don't know why I do what I do. I've tried working behind the scenes. I felt left out!

It doesn't matter about the length of the role. I don't do films for the number of scenes. I go for the quality of my character in the film and the impact that I will have.

I had never done anything like I had done in 'Masters of Sex.' Those are some very adventurous scenes.

It is a treat to do scenes where you silently enact.

Usually a video's fun, but after a while, after a couple hours it's like work because you've got to keep doing the scenes over and over and over again.