What my parents kept failing to understand was how happy I was when I was alone with my books. There was no pressure to perform or be cute, and books never disappoint-- unless, of course, you've chosen a bad one. But then, you can always put it down ...
Speaking of boxes... Do you know that thought experiment with the cat in the box with the poison? Theory requires the cat to be both alive and dead until observed. Well, I actually performed the experiment. Dozens of times. The bad news is reality do...
With me, even if my life depended on it, I wouldn't be able to cry. Not with somebody there. Because even if I'm talking about bad and upsetting things, if there is somebody else in the room, I am trying to entertain them. If there is somebody there,...
I rebelled by not getting straight A's and not following the path that my elder sister did. She was valedictorian and is very exemplary in her way. I look a lot like her, so I just had to do the opposite. Not that I got bad grades, but I was all abou...
Bad luck is fertile.
Mr. A calls me into his office and says he's got bad news and bad news, and which do I want first. I say the bad news.
The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
If you do performance and music, it's not performance as music.
The cure for bad times is patience.
Bad news has wings.
Bad people don't sing.
A bad wound heals but a bad word doesn't.
Whatever is going on inside your head has everything to do with how well you end up performing.
I have a company in the U.K., a performance-capture studio. We're looking to push the boundaries of performance-capture technology in film and video games, but also in live theater, using real-time performance capture with actors onstage, and combini...
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
The Norman conquest forever changed English from a mix of bad German and bad Latin, to a mix of bad German, bad Latin, and bad German-Latin.
No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer.
You know, I think a lot of times what happens when we as actors know we're playing a bad guy is we get into bad guy mode. You know what, man? In real life, bad people do good things too and good people do bad things. So you don't necessarily have to ...
Better a bad harvest than a bad neighbor.
Bad news travels fast.
