Neil Patrick Harris Quotes

In 10 different takes, you can do a scene 10 different ways.

I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time... it's meat loaf again... you'd get bored. I'd get bored.

I'm an actor and I'm able to do a lot of things and play a lot of characters.

If you play well and consistently, it opens up a lot of opportunities.

It's crazy, it really is, to just be fortunate enough to continue to be in positions to win, to be playing well, to be healthy.

To be successful, you need results in a row. You can't win, lose, win, lose.

True success in the N.B.A., you must have consistency of culture.

My game is characterised by consistency.

I think that's all you do as an actor. You give ingredients for the edit, and the edit's the stew, and they try to make a meal out of it. That's all you are. You just throw things in. This is an idea, this is an idea.

I want to be known as an actor who can do all kinds of roles.

I never saw myself as a character actor or a lead actor; I've only seen myself as just an actor.

I'm a perfectionist, and I like to do each scene slightly differently every time.

I'm going to do the best job I can for the company that hired me and give the fans the best show they can and try to keep a strong continuity in the presentation. What other people do, I am not concerned or whatsoever.

I use my hands a lot while acting.

Getting the opportunity to become England's number one was down to being at Everton, I believe, and being able to put in solid performances week in and week out.

As an actor, I love playing something kind of outside of who I am as a real person.

Young actors ask me for advice. They say, 'Should I get an agent?' I tell them, 'Don't worry about that. Act, act, act. Get into that production of 'The Three Sisters' in a church basement. Consider every audition a chance to act, even if it's just for three minutes. Just do it whenever and wherever you can.'

The biggest thing for me is I want to be consistent.

A leotard is more versatile than you might think!

In the preseason, you usually only get a small window of opportunity, but when you get out there for four quarters and you're able to put it together, then you're able to go out there game after game and continue to get better, it was great, especially when I was able to prove a lot of my critics and naysayers wrong.

If you are not performing consistently at a club like Arsenal, then there are other players ready to take the opportunity - which I learned the tough way.

If it's funny or it's good, then yeah, I'll do it. Whether it's big-screen or whatever wouldn't be the deciding factor for me.

It's a huge compliment that people continue to cast me in different types of roles believing in me and the fact that I can carry it off.

It's just trying to do the best job I can in these opportunities that I get to show what I can do, be consistent, have good feedback, be fast, at the same time not make mistakes.

It's about consistency.