Quotes About Performance

We get paid a lot of money to do what we do, and there's a lot of people who are dependent upon that car running well and us getting everything out of it as a team. So I'm very, very loyal to my team and the company.

I think the game will always be dependent on the players that are at its most elite level at that time.

An actor doesn't have a regular job. He is dependent upon the roles which are given him.

I did commercials since I was 16, and that's kind of acting, depending on what you're selling.

In theater, you are there, you have a character, you have a play, you have a light, you have a set, you have an audience, and you're in control, and every night is different depending on you and the relationship with the other actors. It's as simple as that.

I fell in love with art and music and dance and acting and how all those things can cultivate something really special and unique - depending on the performance and the show. That really kind of helped me develop my love of theater.

For me, I feel like I've always driven the same, it's just depending on what situation that I'm in, depending on what I want to do. So, I'll always race hard.

Sometimes you'll have 30, 40 touches in the game, and you'll feel better than if you had 22. It depends on where you get hit and how you get hit.

It depends a lot on the character of the players, how you respond under pressure.

What people don't understand is that how you are as an artist depends on how you are emotionally.

The way you perform really depends on the way you live your life. It's not two separate things.

As an actor, I can just show up and do my job. The success and failure of the film depends on team work.

A coach depends on whether I take a corner well or finish a chance in front of goal, and really, what influence does he have over this when it happens?

To be an elite athlete is really hard when you're depressed.

I love to laugh and dance. That's kind of my nature, though I end up always playing these angry, depressing characters.

I try not to write for actors because A, they're not the character, and B, it's really depressing when you don't get them.

If I'm trying to get into character and it's an emotional scene, I'll listen to depressing or really sad music.

I certainly don't think comedians are more depressive than any other walk of life. I have had clinical depression, as it happens. The stress of performing didn't help, but it wasn't about being a comedian in itself.

I'd like roles with more depth.

You never know the depth of an actor.

Every actor wants that - to have a great character and then continue to add more into the depth of his life.

There's a certain rhythm to comedy that is almost like you're dancing and you just go on autopilot, so to speak. There's something just beautifully enjoyable about comedy in that respect. It's a joy to be able to do that. Drama, you get to go to depths that you haven't gone to before.

I love doing comedy. But sometimes, that exists at sort of the mid-level to the high-comedy level of craziness, and I don't necessarily get to plumb the depths of kind of serious acting as often.

It's war for 90 minutes in the Manchester Derby. You cannot give anything less than 100 percent concentration.