Quotes About Performance

It is one thing to go on stage and be funny or be in a good place in your career, but for a woman, actually facing the elements in a physical way is a very powerful thing.

I face every project the same way - do it right and give 110%. 100% isn't good enough.

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

I don't mind being identified as any character as long as I'm doing a good job as an actor. I have done all kinds of roles - from an editor, judge, police officer, murderer to a corrupt businessman.

I know I'm good enough to contend in each and every major I play.

I found I could also be good in cross country. I don't think my running style has anything to do with it. If you have speed and your body feels good, you can do any distance.

I've always felt that actors in my experience have a very good and accurate instinct about whether something feels right or not. They just have a sense because they have to literally do it.

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

Touring with Iggy Pop was something to do. It was good fun. I got drunk a lot.

It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good.

I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not good at team sports, so I wasn't good at baseball and football.

I don't feel that fear is a good incentive on a film set.

The reality is we are 0-3. The reality is that we can still be a very good football team. We need to show that on Monday night.

I feel that I am a good actor.

You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job, whether it was a big film or not, you would get hired a lot; but that is not my experience.

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.

All that matters on the stage is good art.

Very good in the Back to the Future movies, but was born to play Caroline in the City.

I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.

All my characters are me. I'm not a good enough actor to become a character. I hear about actors who become the role and I think 'I wonder what that feels like.' Because for me, they're all me.

I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.