Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.
When I perform, it's very personal. I'm sharing things I like, inviting the audience into my room.
Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.
You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.
One day I'm riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on a plane to perform in front of 200,000 people.
I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.
Management controls performance in people because it impacts skills; it’s a matter of monitoring, analyzing and directing.
You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.
Whoever loves much, performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.
When I was younger and first started watching MTV I loved watching TRL. I loved watching my favorite singers/bands perform.
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.
Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.
Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.
Stunt work offers a diversity of roles and, while I'm used to anonymity, I really like showing off and performing in front of camera, though I know my limitations.
I worked really hard in college, and I came out a completely different person and performer than when I went in. I did the work, and I found a craft.
I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.
The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again.
For films, the process is that you work consistently and constantly for 3-4 months and then leave; whereas for a play, you prepare for about a month and then continue performing it for 5 to 6 months.
To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.
Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance.
