Quotes About Performance

We used to approach a small 400-person show like an arena show, as if I was a star and I was coming out on stage in front of screaming people and that I was to be larger than life.

When I'm in the ring and we're getting it on and people are screaming my name, it'll push me more.

I can't say it wasn't fun in the 70s having screaming people in the audience.

I can't watch most of my work. Once I come on screen, all I can think of is 'What am I doing with my hands?' or 'Why did I lean that way?' or 'What's that look on my face?' It's too difficult to not focus on evaluating my acting.

Any film which makes me play myself on the screen comes easy for me.

With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.

I can't watch myself on screen without dying a little bit inside. And there are lots of moments when I think, 'What am I doing as an actor? I can't act!'

An actor does not have anything to do with the business of screening films.

You know what, when you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing.

Actors, I have to say, most of the time, they elevate things; they don't screw things up most of the time.

Actors are always looking for actor-proof parts. A part so good you can't screw it up!

There's no such thing as an easy role. Every part, you take it lightly and it will get screwed.

I'm always looking for a low-budget script with an interesting character to play.

What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.

When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show.

Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business.

I just arrive, they hand me a script and say, do it.

They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.

I learn the whole script before I show up.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.