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Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.

What I really like seeing from the stage is people having their own moments, when people are doing some performance of their own.

Even if you see a great performance, it's not always great getting there. There are injuries... Intrinsically or unconsciously, people understand that - people see those performances, and they know there are stories behind that.

A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed.

Part of what makes your performances more convincing is that your own image isn't getting in the way. And the more you can keep it like that, the better for your work and your state of mind.

I've realized that I can do performances.

I consider each performance to be an intimate conversation between me and the audience members.

I've always believed that the stories and the performances are more important than I am. I think that the more invisible that my hand is, the more attention people can pay to the story and to those performances.