Quotes About Performance

The best option that you can have as an actor is pure instinct and you should be able to protect your instinct. Information can either cloud your instinct or aid it.

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.

The IPL is just pure, intense. You don't need all the other stuff. I don't believe in coaches in international cricket.

I feel like L.A. is more of a showcase, and Chicago is a pure comedy scene where you're doing comedy for comedy. You're doing comedy actually for the audience that's there.

When you're talking about pure form, theater is a wonderful outlet.

Kind of the exhausting thing about doing pure comedy, or something that's broader, is you're kind of a slave to the laugh. If it's not funny, then there's not much point in doing it. The kind of ueber-objective is to make people laugh. You always have to have that in the back of your mind, 'Eh, I've got to figure out a way to make this funny.'

TV is easier: it's all planned out for you, and the audience is there to see a show and they are all pumped up, but when you are in a comedy club, you have to be really funny to win them over. To me, that's more pure.

I have no control over the audience. I have no idea what they think. My heart's pure. I can't do anything. I really can't do anything. I don't know what goes on in the crowd.

I don't quite fit in in like a pure dramatic thing, but I still think of myself sometimes as sort of a dramatic actress.

Nobody knows I sing. Even though I've done Broadway musicals. I would only pick it over acting because it's such a pure form of emotional expression.

When I was younger, I definitely thought musical theater was sort of more pure than film. I used to say I'd never go to film because we had to get it right the first time in musical theater. But then, of course, I started doing film and realized I loved it. Keep in mind that I was 8 years old when I said that.

Pure dance form is not dying.

When we are on the road, we do a real horror show - and it's pure entertainment. That's it.

When you're singing somebody else's songs, it's just pure joy to me.

It's pure joy to see some people who've never had the chance to live their dream, come on stage, and let loose.

I felt from time to time that shooting live music is the most purely cinematic thing you can do. Ideally, the cinema is becoming one with the music. There is little artifice involved. There's no acting. I love it.

I have made decisions based from purely an actor's point of view.

Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.

I'm purely most happy on a film or television set. That's where I feel I am home.

I've done a lot of films that are purely live-action roles, and even if I hadn't come across performance capture as a technology, I think I'd always consider myself a sort of mercurial actor.

I don't think there's anything wrong with not knowing how to play an instrument, but the rise of the non-musical producer has done away with musicianship and focused attention purely on the song's hook.

No film can do well purely on the basis of dance.