Performance Difficulty Quotes

After dubbing my lines for the first time, I'd say it's more difficult than performing in front of the camera.

'American Idiot' was the hardest show that I've ever done - ever.

Sometimes the simplest forms of music are the hardest to play. Especially for musicians that are accomplished.

People think that singing and playing is easy. It's not. It's easy to strum along, but if you actually want to really play, where it's important, that's a hard thing and not too many people are good at it.

I think people who can do comedy well don't get enough credit. It can be harder than drama.

With the piano I'm completely in control of the gestural situation-not that I'm going to play the piece myself, but I know what's difficult, what's impossible.

To portray a singer who gets on stage at night, who is away from the limelight, is never an easy task.

I think when people talk about lighter drama, they tend to use that term, not derogatorily, but 'lighter' means sort of less to a degree, but if you're an actor, light drama is often mistaken for easier drama.

It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.

Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.

The hardest part of playing the villain was the prosthetics, because I couldn't really move my face as much as I wanted to, and yet I had to move my face a lot. If I moved my face in certain ways the prosthetics would come apart, so I could do a lot of eyebrow acting, but I couldn't do a lot of nose lifting, or the corners of the nose would pop out.

After joining theatre, I started thinking that acting in films was not half as challenging as theatre.

When I sing with Loaded, I can't move at all. I'm playing guitar, and I'm singing.

I couldn't direct traffic. It's hard enough just acting.

I do not mind having written the song at all. I just wish that I had written it in a different key, as the high d is hard to play. I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

Of the Queen tributes, some of them are very funny, and some of them are really not funny at all. The terrible ones are cheesy and pantolike, more about dressing up in a Brian May wig and a Freddie Mercury moustache, and what they're missing out is the fact that the music is quite complicated and actually not easy to perform.

Comedy has to be so much cleaner than drama. You can't layer it in the way you can a dramatic performance. Which is why it's more difficult than drama - you don't have so many tricks.

It's more difficult playing a real-life person than a fictional character - you can go easy on yourself with a fictional character.

Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right.

I love theater, I would love to do a play, but it's hard to beat.

I ask my assistants if they're retarded all the time. When the camera is on you, of course, actors have the ability to make it real. For me, if I'm not talking, it is a problem. I have so much more respect for actors after being in front of the camera, and I realize that the hardest part is when you're not talking. Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.

You know, the character of Isabelle in 'Love Crime' is the only character I feel the furthest from. I have nothing to share with her, so it was really difficult. Being an actor of composition is something, but you always base yourself on something you know about.

For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.