Quotes About Performance

The best players try to not slow down when they put the pads on.

Football is not played in shorts and it's not fair to the big guys. So many guys look bad in shorts and then they put the pads on and they're football players.

I'm not a critic. I'm an actor. I see the role I get given on the page. I try to bring it to life as best as I can.

I like acting for myself as a director. I act and I know that I'll have a chance to have some say in what gets used and that I'll be able to give myself enough takes and be on the same page as myself about how the scene should play.

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

I think everyone's different but in comedy, I try to do my scene to make the director and the other actors laugh. If I can make them laugh and we have the same sensibility, then I'm on the right page.

The writer creates the role on the page and then the actor takes it and makes it their own.

Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center.

I've had experiences where I wasn't allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page. That's not fun for me. For me, part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium.

I think if an actor is right for a role, casting sees that, and the words that are on the page, depending on how it's written, can really help your character develop.

To me, the struggle is to try to make a less-well-written or less-well-rounded character and find who they are. If you really get it, and it's all on the page, then it's really just gonna pop out at you.

Pageant makeup is so different from your day-to-day look. When you're on stage you really have to pack it on.

My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.

Music is a beauty pageant. When I go put myself out there, I'm going to compete.

Miss America is a scholarship pageant, and they actually define themselves as a talent pageant.

I have to learn sometimes 25 pages at a time. The takes can last 20 minutes - we do big, long takes. You always hope that you get a couple of days in between so you can learn the next one because you can't keep everything in your head at the one time.

I remember in the movies we used to do two pages a day. One in the morning and one in the afternoon.

If a scene is three pages long, quite often people break it up and do a page, say 'cut' then move on to the next bit, they do it in cuts. I don't really like doing that; I like to go through it all in one organic run, then give notes afterward. A little bit more like theater.

On my last two days of 'Young and the Restless,' I had 120-something pages of dialogue. My last two days.

When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

I've never come out and said, 'I hold the most pay-per-view buys.' All I know is what I got paid, and I'm happy.

You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one.