Quotes About Performance

In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if you don't take him in fantasy.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.

As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets.

I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.

My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

The director, of course, was Bob Fosse. But again, I worked with my father to prepare for the role.

My father's ashes are not yet interred.strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm doingthis play.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job other than at one's best ability.

I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs.

My father Philip was an actor and appeared in everything from 'The Onedin Line' to 'Hedda Gabler' with Dame Diana Rigg.

I am really looking forward to driving another of my father's car at the show in Rotterdam.

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.

It's not what you do. It's the way you do it-stripping, or writing, or talking . . . or just breathing. Do it with an air, and never admit you're scared.

As an actor you have one great fear: pimples!

A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.

I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

I never like to go out of character when filming starts. I fear that if I do, I might not be able to pick it up again.

As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.