Quotes About Performance

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

The key is to hit the ball first, then the sand. Even if you catch it a bit thin, you'll still get plenty of run. Hitting it fat is what you want to avoid.

The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing.

It's true that in tennis sometimes the margins are very thin.

I am from Jaipur where 'Ramlila' is a common theatre act. Though I was a thin, lanky fellow, I was always offered the role of Hanuman.

In the world of acting, many are thin but few are talented.

The bottom line is that most cycling kit exists for a reason. The padded shorts, for example, might look silly, but if you are riding for any length of time on a small, thin saddle you are going to feel it.

Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.'

What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground.

There is a very thin line dividing characterisation from impersonation. I've to make sure I don't cross over into mimicry.

I probably had the most fun ever in the ring with Christian. And it was because he could just pick stuff up out of thin air and make it something. Neither of us were these big high-fliers; none of us were power guys doing these big, crazy moves. But the finesse and the things were smooth with me and him.

If the only reason to be on stage communicating with people is to tell them a joke and make them laugh, that seems thin for me. That has a place - I don't think it should stop happening - but for me, I don't know. I just don't.

There is a very thin line when a man plays woman. If you're not careful, you may end up looking like a eunuch. If you don't enact your role properly, you can look very bad.

I prefer improvising, rather than creating comedy out of thin air.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

It's always been the most important thing for me to enjoy my cricket.

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

Playing live is one thing. Playing under a microscope is another.

The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.

I'm a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.

A lot of things happen in a difficult way inside Ferrari in terms of pressure.

My impact on the game was going out there and making things happen.

As a player, you try your best to make things happen, and the rest is up to others.