Quotes About Performance

From being a writer of plays, it was not that surprising that somebody thought of giving me a job as an actor. After I played one part, others came along.

It's all about surprising people, and you're not surprising people if you're making them laugh every five seconds.

I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

I can't remember how many years it's been since I last saw a David Parsons program or what I saw whenever it was, but that isn't surprising, since I can't really remember the first half of a David Parsons program while I'm watching the second half.

I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie and they go see the movie and they expect a certain performance one way or the other. That is just inherently boring to me.

Even with a stable character, you want something surprising to happen, hopefully because that's what the camera loves the most. That's what is great about film.

I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.

At the end of the day, the job is to tell the story that you promised to tell and do it in the most entertaining and perhaps surprising way you can think of.

I love doing stuff in a harness. It's surprising what you can actually do. I'm reasonably coordinated, so I can do flips and the flipping kicks.

The audience of 'Drag Race' and the fans of drag queens are often very surprising.

Sometimes surprising an actor in a good way like that can actually create a response you're not expecting.

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

Performing is the one time I don't have anxiety - surprisingly, right?

We always see that the gaps in qualifying are surprisingly close but then in the race suddenly it is like a second or something.

A lot of actors are relatively shy people, surprisingly, so acting is a way of not being shy - and being paid not to be shy.

I loved working with Ram Gopal Varma in 'Bhoot.' Surprisingly, he remembered my earlier performances and narrated them to me frame by frame when we met for the first time.

I've hit 1, 2 and surprisingly I've hit 3 most of my life. Not that I'm going to be hitting 3, but I feel like those are three really different positions in the lineup. And I feel like I've done all of them. I know what's expected at each one of those, and I feel like you can take that experience away.

Surprisingly, dialogues haven't been a problem for me. Even in 'Savyasachi,' it was easy.

Getting into character to become 'Pretty' Ricky Conlan for the 'Creed' film was surreal.

It's just very surreal for someone who doesn't sing in public to suddenly be singing with Jennifer Hudson.

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

My parents used to bring me to Radio City when I was a little girl, so performing there 50 years later was absolutely surreal - especially with my parents in the audience!

When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I'm doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it's so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.

When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.