Quotes About Performance

I would say this: no matter what style you play, at some point, the team that beats you, people are going to say, 'I guess your style doesn't work.'

Everyone loves good dressing room drama. But nothing beats main stage drama!

The day I do get a championship-winning car, I will run with it. I will capitalise on every part of that beautiful thing.

The room is full of such talent. It's a beautiful thing about the SAG Awards. It's the most rewarding room to be in as an actor.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself.

What I ended up doing was becoming an actor who didn't mind doing other people's words.

I think Samantha Bee is doing a really good show.

You're looking at the Bee Gees right now.

You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

You can't apologize for who you are on a stage, you can reveal who you are but don't apologize because that's begging the audience to turn on you.

Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.

When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.

I love the theater because it's alive. It's a beginning, a middle and an end, and it begins a life.

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

I think it's always better to be in an F1 car because, in general, the car behaves itself.

Every time I take my teams abroad, the players always behave.

I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

When I act, I try to understand the character, why she's behaving like that.

A Mac PowerBook is a thing to behold.

I can never remember being afraid of an audience. If the audience could do better, they'd be up here on stage and I'd be out there watching them.

I've never been interested in being famous. I enjoy acting. That's what's important to me.

I love the studio audience. That's where I feel the most at home. You know right away if you're being funny or not.

Being funny has always mattered a lot to me. It's why I started acting - to make my friends laugh.