Quotes About Performance

What I do on film is part of my profession.

It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living.

If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

I guess we're all lucky to be in this profession where you can be someone else for two or three months on a film shoot. I find it restful. Vachement agreable.

With acting, there is a level of anonymity which is conducive to your profession. There are examples of very public people who are on the cover of every celebrity magazine but can't open a film.

Being a musician is a noble profession.

I do this profession. I'm an actor. And it is, for me, an opportunity to meet people.

I think self-criticism is sort of a given when you're an actor. It's also about being curious and not being flippant. Anyone who accepts being in this noble profession is automatically self-critical.

I think it's the same to be an actress anywhere because the profession is about attitudes towards events - it is a process to try to understand life. I think this is the case for actors across the world.

The characteristic shared by people at the top of their profession is that, to get better, they crave criticism. Most people don't like criticism, but if you are trying to shave two tenths of a second at 800 metres, that is what you crave.

I have great emotion every time I go on stage. Nothing in life gives me the same satisfaction that my profession gives me.

I learned my profession onstage. I didn't have a musical background. I had no conservatory training. I don't play an instrument.

Painting is such an individual profession. I'm not performing. There's no audience.

I would say that one of the hardest things for an athlete, and really anybody of any profession, is that we create our identity in what we do.

Sometimes you just don't show up, and in our profession, it's a bad day.

The word 'star' is misused. A good film will never fail. And if you have become an actor to become a star, then your reason of being in this profession is wrong. It amounts to abusing the art.

If I feel insecure, then I am in the wrong profession. I have to trust my director and the material he has given me.

Music is a conversation between the audience and me, and I love that about my profession.

Acting is only my profession.

There's nothing obvious or predictable in acting. That's what it means to be in this profession.

Performing in the theater is a very ethereal profession because you do it once and it goes out into the ether and it goes into people's minds and that's the only place that it ever exists. And it never exists truly; it only exists in the way that people think they remember it. But it's a really powerful way to tell a story and to pass something on.

I was damn lucky to choose this profession. I had no idea when I started out that I was really an illusionist and a magician.