Successful Performance Quotes

From a personal point of view, when you're hitting the back of the net at Premier League level people recognize that you're doing something right.

The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.

There are a lot of good actors who work forever and never make one good thing.

I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.

When I see the ball going in the hole, I'm a completely different player.

I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. I think hopefully it will mean a lot to New Zealand because I'm the next winner of the U.S. Amateur after Danny Lee.

All actresses give good performances, but everybody doesn't get the right roles.

Showbiz works well when you give the audience what they want.

Ballykissangel' made me a household name, and I am enormously grateful for that, but I don't feel it would ever have developed me into a better actress had I stayed.

I understood something way back when I was on 'Three's Company.' When I got the part, I was flat broke. I was so happy to get the part, but I kept thinking, 'Ugh - dumb blondes are so irritating; how do I make her likable?' I think that I achieved that. It took a while for people to realize I was acting.

My understanding is the day I start looking at myself as a star is the day I will die as an actor.

You would think, in an ideal world, that if you were in a really good film and did a really good job, whether it was a big film or not, you would get hired a lot; but that is not my experience.

Some guys practice like all-Americans but they can't play!

You can never predict a hit or a flop, but it's about what you are happy doing as an actor. Every actor comes with his or her own mindset.

Before 'Mad Men,' I definitely had very dry spells and I know what those feel like, and I don't think that ever leaves you as an actor.

Got through it without fluffing, that's the main thing any actor can hope for.

I know that one's visibility is very high on television, even with an unsuccessful show! With a successful role, it's even higher.

Results like 8-0 wins build confidence.

Every time I get a role, I'm surprised. It's like, 'Alright, when am I going to stop fooling them?'

If you score goals in Italy you can score goals all over the world, no problem.

I was this person with this weird last name from New York that no one had ever heard of. But my screen test I guess, according to him, was the best. So I got the part, which was incredible.

It doesn't work that way, you know, because most parts that you think you'd do well, most other people don't. So they offer you something - The Avengers is a good example... I fitted into that because I came from that sort of background. It's not even acting.