Quotes About Performance

If you are not moved by the character, no amount of CGI will give you a performance that is emotionally engaging or devastating - what a live-action performance does.

On the stage you develop a character that's different from yourself. In a film they're always saying, 'Walk over here. Say this line. Be you.'

I really love being in a room and developing work.: being at the table, looking at the script for the first time, and putting a story on its feet.

When you are developing a character you have to bring so much of yourself to the role.

It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work.

A team like McLaren doesn't want to keep changing drivers at a time when they're developing the car. They want consistency.

Now, I don't even consider NXT a developmental system. It's its own brand. So many guys were able to develop a following while in NXT.

If I deviate from my nature, it's possible that my game will be affected.

I remember I was like five or six years old; I played the devil. That was my first role.

The most important thing about 'Devil May Cry' is that the action itself, there's beauty to it.

My position is that of detective, confessor, vaudevillian, advocate. And devil's advocate.

The devil is a fun character to play because he's everywhere and no where all the time.

It's true that as Mr. Chan makes more American movies - and gets older - we will never again see the kind of fistfight choreography that the star would devote four months to shoot.

I know without our fans and the devotion of our fans we wouldn't be here. I don't mean to put them down, but I'm just stating a fact that it is hard to play to people that see you all the time and it takes a lot of fun out of it in some ways.

You can't really do comedy if you're working with Ryan Reynolds, eh? He outplays everyone in that field, so I couldn't really 'dial it down,' because he was just so much better than me at comedy.

It was hard to do 'Vikings.' It was hard to do 'Copper.' Part of that was, like, there's dialect and other things.

I just love dialects; they're really fun.

I've always been fascinated by dialects and accents. In fact, I've rarely played straight English parts. I play character parts - and always will.

I like a lot of good dialogue if it is well-acted.

I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.

I don't need dialogue to convey emotion or thoughts to my audience.

When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.

When the song is part of the action and working as dialogue, even two minutes is way too long.

Dialogue is what a character's willing to share and reveal to another character, and the 90% they aren't willing to share is what I do for a living.