Quotes About Performance

Doing cinema is not about watching yourself.

A lot of cinema is about the game of authenticity - do you feel it's real?

I have always said that the biggest difference between stage and cinema is that one has got close-ups.

Tommy Lee Jones

I've always acted; in fact, I can't remember a time when I was not. When I was little, cinema was a game, then my father's job and now mine.

It's infrequent that that happens - great performances and magical cinematography and great direction.

To me, if people think about wrestling, they think about elbow drops, body slams, and stringing somebody in the circle.

I love every minute of being inside that squared circle.

A1 Ring is a circuit where no one can test, so all teams are in the same boat.

I play the didgeridoo using circular breathing.

It's for a different circumstance when you're talking about playing for money and playing for heart.

We all want to escape our circumstances, don't we? Especially if you are an actor.

I just go out there and play. I don't know if it's being young and not getting calls, or some other circumstances. I'm just trying to make a play.

I don't watch a lot of my work. I'm not really interested in seeing it after I do it. Because I came from theater, where, you know, it's impossible to actually review your work, so why would I bother under any other circumstances?

When you see the numbers who come to the circus, you understand that we don't get that by abusing animals.

Circus is the magic you should show your children.

This circus games aspect has existed since the beginning of my career.

Rock 'n' roll is like a circus today.

I never doubted my talent. If talent was the circus, then I was its ringmaster and audience, applauding its every move.

Circus lions are mean. They don't know anything about affection training.

Politicians have made people cry... politics has become a circus.

Being an actor is pretty much like being in the circus.

I think that's a big part of what I love about the boys in the band, too, and what I find attractive in men in general is, really, the ability to not take everything so seriously because it is rock n' roll after all; it's a freakin' circus. We're not accountants here.

I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.