Quotes About Performance

Living out a story eight times a week is difficult and draining emotionally but very fulfilling.

Doing a play is so fulfilling. Words cannot describe how I feel when I finish doing a play.

You do get a lot of people complaining if you don't do songs they have come to expect. I have to be careful about fulfilling that side of things and keeping it fresh for other people who have come to see the show.

I am both so beaten up and bolstered up - I've gotten so many criticisms and accolades - that the fulfillment happens on the floor in front of the camera, not when the project comes out.

As an actress, you have to give your character a life, a history, and make it full and rich for yourself.

I just want to go out there and play to my full potential, and play a healthy season, know what I'm saying?

Sometimes I do things in training and think, 'Ah! I need to do that in a game. If I do I will be close to my full potential.'

The audience can expect full-on entertainment from me.

Now that I'm older, I couldn't do music full-time. You don't get home until two or three a.m. Acting, you can be at home with your family.

In 2006, I left my job in sales and marketing to go full-time as a comedian, and I started off doing panto at the Lowry in Manchester.

Acting is a full-time job for me.

Being an actor is hard. It's so true... auditioning is literally our full-time job, and then, if we are so lucky to book the project were auditioning for, then that project is our play.

As an actor, your whole body needs to be expressive, and unless you know the language, your expressions will not match the character you are playing. So, I am learning Tamil to the fullest.

Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.

I love being on stage. There's nothing better than that feeling; ever since the first time I was on stage, I was like, 'Oh, this is what it means to be fully alive and satisfied.' I don't think anything's as satisfying as a play.

It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.

It's been fun to just play bass in a band and play live but be in the background.

It's always fun to make people laugh, and then make them afraid or cry at the same time.

We don't think of them as acting, but we take on certain characteristics based on where we function, and those relationships draw out aspects of who we are as people. And that's what acting is. Different parts draw out different parts of your nature.

I did the 'Bionic Woman,' which of course had a lot of humor in it, and that was really a function of a lot of the ad-libbing and the things that I did in it.

I've been acting since I could function. I got into acting to get attention as a child.

Being on stage, I know my function. I just do the thing.

I was dancing when I was acting as well. Actors generally dance in performances like in an award function.

Some guys joke, 'Oh, you have a bedtime.' But I've got to be able to function the next day at the top level.