Quotes About Mastery

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.

We strivin' for perfection.

I want to improve my dance moves and achieve perfection.

How do you try to play 'Captain Hook' better than, or as well as, Dustin Hoffman? You can't. It's perfection.

You can't ever reach perfection in this business, but that's one of the things I love. It's something that can't ever be mastered, but you can attempt to get as close as possible.

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

Be a perfectionist.

I've always been that person: If it gets into my head, I've got to do it until I get it perfect - a perfectionist's attitude.

In golf, there are times when you hit a ball so perfectly that you never feel the ball leave your club.

Excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over again. You can hit a half-court shot once. That's just the luck of the draw. If you consistently do it... that's excellence.

I perform in the major leagues of what I do. It's incredible.

I want to perform well.

I mean these people who work on Broadway, in my opinion, are the most gifted of everyone. I mean they really know how to dance. They really know how to act. They really know how to sing. They know how to perform.

Watching Bernadette Peters perform is like an acting class. She's amazing.

The more you perform and get out there, I guess the more practice you have at it and the better you are and the more comfortable you are on stage.

My form is more on the lines of a Chinese porcelain-jar juggler. They learn it as a child. They learn, learn, learn, learn - but not with a porcelain jar. Then, when they're ready to perform, they're taken to a museum, and they're given a porcelain jar for a lifetime to use. When they're done, it's returned to the museum.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

I feel that confidence is the essence for a good performance.

When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction.

It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.

As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.

I'm not, like, a natural performer. It's sort of a thing that I've had to learn to do.

I'm perfecting my craft as an artist and as a performer, and my shows are getting better each time.