Quotes About Performance

The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break.

Nobody should expect an actor to have these wonderful ideas and concepts about the world: they pretend to be other people for a living.

I like to sing along to Annie Lennox and pretend to be as sassy as her.

An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

When I perform on stage, I often pretend to be someone other than myself to bring a certain emotion or intent to a song.

The joy of the roasts is to watch people get hurt and offended, and then have to laugh to pretend they're a good sport.

We actors do this to pretend, to go into imaginary circumstances, so when the imaginary circumstance is of a different time, that just compounds the joy of doing what we do.

I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.

On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.

When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.

Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.

I think that always, as an actor, I don't want to overstep or pretend that I'm doing anything more than I'm doing.

Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.

There's no way to be a 30-year-old band, go on tour, and pretend the nostalgia isn't happening.

I'm not going to ask musicians to sit there and pretend to play. It feels insulting to the musicians to me.

As much as we like to pretend we're just getting on stage and whatever, it's like, no, I practiced in front of the mirror my whole life.

One Christmas, I wrote a nativity play. But nobody turned up on the day of the performance apart from my brother and my cousins, so I just read the whole script onstage and made my brother pretend to be one of the animals at the inn.

Acting is a funny job because you're always playing a hundred levels of pretend, but when you're working with great designers who end up doing a lot of that work for you, you can focus on the things you want to focus on.

I think performers who pretend fashion doesn't matter are huge liars.

I'm used to having big movie cameras in my face; I pretend that they're not there.

It's a blessing to stay a child all your life - pretend to be this and that. And get paid for it.

I never do anything for the camera. It's my job to pretend the camera's not there. I'm never moving for the camera.

I'm a rock drummer. I couldn't sit down and pretend to be a jazz drummer.

When my team is playing, I pretend my father is in the grandstand and think, 'would he be enjoying watching this team?' And that's always been at the root of everything I have done.