Quotes About Performance

I have the mentality of a supporting actor.

It's my job as a supporting actor - which I usually am - to support the film: to make 1, 2, or 3 on the call sheet look good.

If I was offered the choice of an award for best actor or best supporting actor, I would go for supporting actor.

There's a fine line between lead actor and supporting actor.

My whole life, not just in my professional career but in community theater, I played the supporting role.

I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked.

If you're playing a lead, you're shaping the movie. When you're playing a supporting role, you've got only a moment to make it count.

I don't believe in terminologies like 'lead role' or 'supporting role' or 'cameo role,' etc.

I think typically you'd start in a supporting role or an ensemble role, or maybe even an off-Broadway role. So to come into a lead role on Broadway, especially taking over a role that has been played by two phenomenal actors in the past, that is some large shoes to fill.

Sometimes you'll have a heckler who's actually attempting to be supportive, but you don't realize it. Their way of expressing it is kind of confusing.

I have been trying to perform well and give my best, but unless I have a good story line in my hand or a supportive team, I am nothing.

There's a difference between expanding someone's potential and expanding their actual performance. Performance may measure other things, whether one's culture supports education, other socio-economic factors.

I prefer it when the conductor follows me. It is more difficult to work with a conductor who does not listen - even if I understand that sometimes it makes sense when one person is ruling everything. But for bel canto, I have to have a conductor who listens and supports me.

I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it's coming out of something and then evolving into something.

I suppose my look, the way I play - you combine all that sort of stuff and that makes people interested in what I actually do. So then, when off-the-field stuff happens... I suppose it's one of those cocktail mixes.

I've always been a bit dressed up, even on casual days. I suppose that's the performer in me.

I suppose I am more comfortable with jazz because I have been playing it that much longer, and also because classical music is a much more disciplined genre.

I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.

I suppose I'm what you'd called a character actress, so, often, my characters are quite extreme.

Having to walk and talk and hit a mark and open a door proved nearly impossible for me. I suppose that's why we're on a reality show and not 'Mad Men.' Because we don't act.

I suppose that's the way I have always thought about it. Just try to hit the ball. That's what the game's about.

Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.

Well you just have to own it, I suppose. Own the character, which is difficult.

So I suppose that means we can actually play the instruments.