Quotes About Performance

The action-movie genre is a very difficult one to get satiated in terms of your acting bits.

You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.

The scripts that I take should be solid in terms of content; only then will my inability as an actor not show up on the screen.

It's never a matter of career decisions. I don't think in those terms. What matters is whether a role is interesting, if I will enjoy playing it, and if I'm confident I can do a good job.

'Hedwig' isn't particularly based on me, but I think that it is autobiographical in terms of emotion.

It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game.

I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

I'm terrible at learning lines. I'm good at learning lines when I don't have to be word-perfect.

Live performance is everything. First of all, I have terrible stage fright. But beyond that, once the music starts, it's OK.

Honestly, as you can imagine, it really isn't all that fun directing yourself, running back and forth to the monitors to see if you're terrible or not.

A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The Really Terrible Orchestra; which actually is really terrible.

The pool is terrible, but that doesn't have much to do with my record swims. That's all mental attitude.

I must tell you I take terrible risks. Because my playing is very clear, when I make a mistake you hear it. If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake. Never be afraid to dare.

I'm not much of a crier but it is mildly soul-destroying and exposing to do something physical that you are terrible at in front of other people.

My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.

My demo was terrible, I sounded like a chipmunk. I was so young.

I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.

I always wanted to score goals, but sometimes I've scored and been terrible and other times I felt I played well and didn't score. I looked at the statsheet the season where I scored 27 goals and I had one assist and was frustrated.

When you're shooting, there's terrible pressure, and you never switch off. Every day is like the day before an exam; it's relentless.

I listen to all sorts of music, but I'm not musically talented. Everyone expects me to be a good singer or musician, but I really am terrible. I'm a great dancer, though.

It's strange: I always try to do the best acting job I can do under the imaginary circumstances of my working position at any given time. But it's terrible when you know it's going bad, and you know it immediately. But you just have to still try to do the best job you can.

The thing for me is - and one of the reasons I was never a fan of Goldberg in the beginning when everybody was like 'Oh, he's so good! - I was like, 'No, he's terrible, he's hurting people,' and there's nothing else. He just has three-minute matches.

I'm terrible at learning lines.