Quotes About Performance

Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.

I don't need you to be funny. I don't want to be entertained.

You can't fake comedy. You can't make it look beautiful or put an interesting bit of music on in the background: funny can only be funny if you're funny.

I was born to be funny.

I think anyone loves to play a character that is either evil to a certain extent or has a real definable character flaw. Those are always really fun, and, I think, funny.

It's really easy to be funny. You get a lot of funny people in a room, the show is funny.

I'm a very funny person that doesn't get the chance to do a lot of comedy, and the same thing with my accents.

The funny thing is, whenever I'm working on something, I kind of forget there's a lot of people watching. It makes it easier to be in the moment and to tell a story as well as possible.

I approach 'Fast & Furious 6' the same way I would approach a Sidney Lumet film. Getting into character's getting into character.

The way I go to watch The Rock in 'Fast and Furious', I want people to come and watch me.

Know your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

When you have an entire amphitheatre of people laughing that way, it makes you feel so funny and it frees you to go further than you probably would.

If you can have heart as well as the comedy, it takes you a lot further. I think that that's what we were trying to do with 'Gigi.'

I'm willing to go further than other people on camera.

The further away you can get away from yourself as an actor, the more fun you have.

The more I can be the character, the further I can get away from myself, the better.

I always think that trying to push yourself as an actor in a direction that you've never been before, developing characters which are more difficult to get into the head of, or are more interesting and further away from yourself, is always a challenge.

I know what I try to do. I try to be professional, turn up, not make too much fuss, do the job.

To my family and friends, I'm very definitely a clown. But do you know what? Doing a drama would almost seem easy because I wouldn't need to find that gag in a line.

The fans like a certain thing in certain areas. In Florida, they like the gaga.

She's been around so long and she doesn't disappoint ever. Gaga also thinks out of the box and that's what the best artists do.

I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

You want to make as many plays as you can just to help your team to get points on the board. If that happens you're going to naturally gain confidence.

The reason I'm an actor and am trying to make my way in drama is to move people, to affect people, to gain a response - so these people who come up to you in the street are your audience.