Quotes About Performance

I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.

It would be very, very dangerous for a wire walker to experience fear while he is balancing on the wire. Fear has its place on earth, before and maybe after a high-wire walk, but not during for me.

As a high wire walker, I do not allow myself to 'leave the wire' during a performance.

It was such a joy to be an actor on 'The Wire.'

On the high wire, within months, I'm able to master all the tricks they do in the circus, except I am not satisfied.

I am the poet of the high wire - I never do stunts; I do theatrical performances.

Your timing has to be very accurate. I've done a lot of wire work before. I can see that experience makes a big difference.

I just auditioned for 'The Wire' like I just auditioned for any other job.

My happiest moments are when I'm on my high wire with the Johnny Carsons of the world. I don't have that opportunity if I'm doing other people's scripts.

Whenever we do wire work, we do look like babies just being, like, dangled.

As an actor you are supposed to do some kind of action in case it is required. I remember this sequence where I was pulled up by a wire 100 ft above the ground. This was my first time that I was hung with a wire and I was a bit scared. But I must say it was a very beautiful experience looking down at everybody from a height.

The hardest thing in golf is trying to two-putt when you have to, because your brain isn't wired that way. You're accustomed to trying to make putts, and when you change that mind-set, your brain short-circuits, especially under pressure.

My main thing is I'm gonna go out there every night and give it all I got and just try to put on the best show I can. That's just the way I'm programmed and wired.

The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired.

Our brains are wired such that it's difficult to take action until we feel at least some level of this emotional state. In fact, performance peaks under the heightened activation that comes with moderate levels of stress. As long as the stress isn't prolonged, it's harmless.

Some players can just act like 'whatever' off the field and then play amazing. Not many, but some. I just wasn't wired like that.

All my racks are the same between Slipknot and Stone Sour. The only thing I'll do is switch out pedals in the GCX system. But it's the same heads, same wireless, same GCX.

In the metal world, if you're using a wireless mic... I was so scared to do that. I'm, like, 'They're gonna boo me in the beginning.'

There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.

Unlike a high-wire walker, I don't think any musician strikes the wires of a piano or draws a bow across a violin's strings primarily for the kick of an adrenalin fix. There is danger on stage, but dropped notes are not broken bones; a memory lapse is not a tumble to the ground.

I did tons of gigs where I didn't move around very much because I couldn't. There's a pole over here and wires and a monitor there.

Here's my take on Andy Kaufman... For Kaufman, comedy was a skill that was open for examination. He didn't just do comedy, he deconstructed it like it was a transistor set. He pulled out all the wires and switched them around, often in front of our very eyes.

For the 'Heaven' stage, the dancers and I don't use wires so we are slowly slipping down the stage if you see us up close.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.