Quotes About Performance

I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character when they're in the screen.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape.

If you're lucky enough to work with great actors and creative people, they're always just going to be who they are, so I don't think there's a difference between the Brits and the Americans.

The artists and creative people are not in a position to teach someone. Nobody wants to be taught through entertainment.

I like acting; I like being lost in the creative process.

I like acting when I can pick my own roles, and I do. It's fun. I like being creative, and it's a creative process.

The creative process for me doesn't work as well without an image of an audience in mind.

Acting is awesome, but I'm really, really able to express myself creatively in music.

I find it creatively satisfying to write material and say it out loud in a public place, whether or not anyone's listening.

Movie music allows me to work with players as creatively as I can.

Creatively, there are no limits to what you can do in the ring.

I don't want to be a part of a show that is creatively dissatisfying.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

I love the creativity and the social and political aspects of drag.

For a stage actor to be there with the words and the creator of the words - it doesn't get much better than that.

Strikers are streaky creatures.

The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players are the most wonderful creatures.

If I'm not performing on the field, if I'm not doing what's expected of me, what I say or attempt to get across to anyone else has no credence.

I don't have credibility, I'm a comedian.

I'm looking for personal credibility as an entertainer.

I'm tryin' to get some acting credibility, get some other work.

The only credit I can give them. They synchronize wonderful. That's all. They synchronize very - you would have thought that they were actually acting, but they were synching all the time, and that's a rough job.

I don't think longevity gets enough credit when you're talking about a player.

Most times, I'm playing myself in films, like 'Rocky' or 'Creed.'