Quotes About Performance

Most actors really love it, that's what they want to do. They burn to do it. And so they'll read a script and think, that's an interesting part. And because they love acting, that blinds them to the fact that the rest of it is pretentious nonsense, which it very often is.

I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.

I was given a mask of myself by Frances Barber when we opened 'Julius Caesar.' I looked much younger and prettier. Wearing it was certainly cheaper than Botox.

The thing is this sport doesn't have a heavyweight who is prettier than I am and can get down.

In gymnastics, everything is a competition. You want to have your hair look the best and your makeup look the best. You want to be the best, and you want to have the prettiest leotard.

Violinists' hands aren't the prettiest because of our nails and what our hands have to go through.

The current Babe Ruth of improv? Sacha Baron Cohen. He's pretty amazing.

I have always been pretty flexible. I could always jump and do all kinds of dangerous movements. In opera, I like to do it because it's fun, as long as it fits the role.

My dream is to play ordinary characters. I have no interest in playing a pretty girl or an NRI girl.

This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.

I play like I play. You hear it on 'Celebration Day.' It's pretty good for a one-night shot.

I'm usually pretty good in front of a live audience. I usually like that.

The polarity of Mitch Mitchell and Moe Tucker offers a pretty good understanding of what a drummer's role is.

I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from.

You look at stats for a guy who is a pretty good linebacker, he'll make 100 tackles. You make 100, you're averaging seven or eight tackles a game. If you play every down, that's a good number.

Getting to play superheros is a pretty good job.

But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good.

I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.

It's a pretty good job being an actor, but it's work sometimes. And when I say work, I mean it's a job. You're going to a job.

Gold Gloves are nice to have people mention. They're basically saying you're a pretty good defensive player along with everything else. But I was about the offensive side.

I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.

To do comedy, you have to be a pretty good actor to start with.

Fred Armisen does a pretty good me.

There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known for hitting bum notes.