Quotes About Performance

Some actors try to play parts and do things they can't do. Being funny is one of them. Being funny's hard.

With drama, you know if you're having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn't laugh, then you know you're not being funny. That's a really fun challenge, and that's what draws me to comedy.

I was always interested in being funny and amusing and creating art and comedy.

Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.

We are trying to push the envelope with a lot of characters in 'Brothers.' We are going out of the way and being honest to our roles.

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

I enjoy being myself on television, where I am not enacting a character.

When I perform, I'm just very much just being myself.

I'm more comfortable doing a character than being myself.

Even in comedy, you have to be real. It's all about being real. It's how real can you be? That's the challenge. How much are you willing to take on for your character?

I want to be the best. I don't know by what standard you measure being the best, but I want to go out there and perform and feel like I'm the best.

For me, if I had a magical match that I was so proud of, and I had to work the same person after that again, it was always about topping that last thing and being the best.

I'm thinking about being the best I can be at ESPN in the studio.

I just enjoy training. I enjoy being there, enjoy coming into games and training sessions where I can feel that I'm as good or better than the players I have to play against or with.

I have so many happy memories of Belfast and the shows I played there.

Always really good audiences in Belgium.

The Belgian fans expect a lot of me in the Belgium team. It is normal - they don't forget that I cost Euros 40m. I totally understand.

If the goal is to be believable when you're acting, I've got the best idea of what that believability might look and feel like. And because you need a normal guy in a comedy so that the eccentricities can pop, that's a good part for me.

The role of an actor is to make every character believable.

However good an actor may be, he can't make a scene believable on his own, so it has to be a team work.

As an actor, you have to be able to put yourself into the character since your job is literally making the character and the situation he is in believable.

You've got to believe in yourself that you will get the runs for your team.

I've always believed, maybe naively, that 'The play's the thing.'

I've always believed applause is food for an artist.