Quotes About Performance

When you think you're good, you will play at that level. If you doubt yourself, you will play like crap.

When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.

Christina Ricci

When I'm playing comedy, it is such a crap shoot of what will work and what won't.

All that acting and all that stuff and emoting and crap will come after you know what you're doing. So when you get - when I get on stage, I don't have to think about it.

There's games you try one field goal, and if you miss that one field goal you'll feel like crap for the whole rest of the week... It doesn't do you any good.

You could be the sexiest woman in the world, and if you can't sing, if you're not an artist and you can't create a show, you can't have power in front of a crowd, you're gonna crash and burn.

The thing I crave for the most is appreciation for my acting.

It used to be enough for me to get on stage and sing. I kind of crave the performance part now. I write knowing it's going to happen, which I didn't do before.

Crawling into someone's skin is what acting is all about.

I don't have, like, a huge effect on the crowd, I'd say. So not having fans isn't the craziest thing to me.

You can say, 'Put your hands up.' And 30,000 people put their hands up. It's one of the craziest things.

As a comic and as an actor, I think you've got to be partially crazy.

It was just crazy anxiety, crazy, crazy, just how am I going to walk out on this court?

I don't think I've played a lot of crazy people.

You don't really ever think you're that crazy person you're playing.

Obviously, I wore a lot of crazy things on stage. That's just how it goes.

The ballet world, it's a crazy world.

Your body's an amazing machine and it's created to do stuff. See what you can get out of it.

You have to get it in your brain that you don't belong to yourself as an actor, but that you belong to the director who creates the character.

Cleopatra was exhausting to play, but also completely exhilarating. She creates her own energy.

As long as an attacker creates opportunities, everything is fine.

Honestly, I don't think screen space matters much; it's the impact your character creates that is important.

I don't think it's a problem if you play well and don't score, when you are creating chances.