Quotes About Performance

I don't really prepare for roles. I just kind of do them!

For me and for I'm sure any actor, each role is a different challenge to prepare for in a different way.

All the things you can do to prepare for a role that free you, in the moment, are great. You have this muscle memory for things. You don't have to act it as much, once you've done it enough.

I don't think I'm sharp enough to not prepare and come on set and kill it.

There is something about acting that's mysterious and magical because there is only so much I can do to prepare, and then I have to just let go and breathe and believe that it will come through.

When I do a T.V. show, I hear all these artists in their dressing rooms doing scales - I've never done it because I've never had voice training. What I do to prepare is get in my car and sing along to the radio for about 20 minutes.

I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.

Drama school, you know, I own an acting school, Actor Prepares.

When it comes to performance, I don't like to prepare at all if I don't have to.

When you're acting, you do have to prepare yourself for doing that. You have to leave behind - or you try and leave behind - anything that's going on in your personal life.

The day before I work, I don't like to even look at the script and let whatever happens happen on the set. But I do prepare a lot. I'm a big believer in that.

I don't prepare for any role. I go on the sets and do it.

I have lived my dream and played at the finest of cricket grounds across the globe, and I want to thank the groundsmen, clubs, associations, and everyone who painstakingly prepare the arena for our performances.

I prepare a lot. For 'The Artist Is Present,' it took me a year to teach my body not to produce acids.

I like to prepare for my roles well, so you can call me a method actor to an extent.

On fight night, you show up. And the question becomes, 'Did you or did you not do the work that is going to prepare you for what is about to occur?' And I just think that's a beautiful thing.

On some level, some of the challenges end up being similar, which is when you have a very emotional scene to shoot. As an actor, you have to prepare a certain way, but you also have to prepare a certain way when you're a director because you have to be sure you're telling the whole story.

When I prepare for a fight, I never expect it to be easy. I believe that that would create a chance for me to not give my best in the Octagon.

I don't prepare for my characters.

I think you just prepare the way you've always prepared and go about the game the same way and see where you stand at the end of the year.

Sometimes a manager can only do so much, as in prepare a team, and then the team have to go out there and perform.

You practice, you prepare, just go out, and let it flow. Just go play ball. You have to go out there and play loose and play free.

I didn't mentally prepare as well for Ngoudjo as I should have. I was a little lax in the fight.

We actors should be given the highest awards for performing in the middle of people. I can prepare in the most crowded of places, and I know how to take a journey into my mind and separate myself from the crowd. I can act anywhere.