What made me fall in love with acting, which is my life, was watching other people perform. It made me hunger to do that.
Every human being must have boundaries in order to have successful relationships or a successful performance in life.
Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
I always assumed I'd spend my life happily performing in artsy-fartsy little theaters.
I would love very much to win a medal at the Olympics for myself, by my own performance. But that will never happen.
People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!
I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.
I'd love to be remembered as a character actor who brought illumination to roles in wonderful plays and who delivered performances that made people think and rethink those roles.
I love theatre because it's just me and the audience. It's the litmus test in acting, to be able to sustain a performance over one, two or three hours.
I always had the idea that I wanted to perform. I love being the center of attention - and I always love talking about myself.
I've tried every kind of bottled water, but Poland Spring is my go-to. I always have room-temperature bottles of it on side of stage for post-performance.
I come from a broadcast background where I just prefer a lighter approach to my performance.
After drama school I did a seven-month tour of Europe performing in 'Romeo and Juliet.' I played Romeo.
For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.
I find the theatre faintly embarrassing for the actors performing on stage. It seems rather showy-off in an undignified way.
The idea that any performer type is owed anything is a joke to me.
I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.
When we get the final hardware, the performance is just going to skyrocket.
I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.
I've always been a bit dressed up, even on casual days. I suppose that's the performer in me.
Be able to resign. It will improve your value to the President and do wonders for your performance.
