Quotes About Performance

Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.

I never will believe there is such a thing as a great actor.

The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

The jokes are great but what really matters for a comedian is his performance, his whole attitude, and the laughs that he gets between the jokes rather than on top of the jokes.

Good-to-great companies set their goals and strategies based on understanding; comparison companies set their goals and strategies based on bravado.

Royal Canadian Air Farce, and I was in three sketches there. And they wrote some really great stuff for me.

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.

Sometimes I have a great day of filming and sometimes the theater strikes me better. It just depends.

The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.

I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

I enjoy playing other people. It's a great job and it's challenging. I couldn't do a desk job.

Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level.

I really want be of great value for the team.

There's got to be structure and great comedy. When you start with that, everything else falls into place.