I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.
You can never be guaranteed good roles because of an award, but I think your profile and net worth as a performer has to do with awards, unfortunately.
I'm always a competitor. I'm not there just to have a good time. I want to play well and perform well.
Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
A good stunt has to have both style and substance. It's a combination of impact and notoriety, the element of danger, technical execution, and the skill of the stunt performer.
Any vehicle that conveys great songs and the ability to perform them, whether it's 'N Sync or the Backstreet Boys or One Direction, is all good.
If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.
I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
Mexico has lost its leadership, and a lot of that has to do with its poor performance and the lack of better results in our country.
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
I'm not one of these guys who is dedicated to playing or performing - that's just one facet of my life.
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.
