Quotes About Performance

The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body.

Every time I step on the field, I'm going to give my whole heart regardless of the score.

An actor really suffers when the director isn't prepared because you start running out of time for the shoot and then have to do it fast.

Every animator is really an actor performing in slow motion, living the character a drawing at a time.

If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time.

I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.'

The three-thousand hitting thing was the first time I let individual pressure get to me. I was uptight about it. When I saw the hit going through, I had a sigh of relief more than anything.

The single most important thing in a child's performance is the quality of the teacher. Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.

You know what's the worst part about being an actress? It's the pressure to look gorgeous all the time and to behave perfectly. But I'm not perfect, nobody is.

The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.

Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time.

Expect me to give my all. Thats what I do every time I have a show. Give my all.

If Arsenal played like this all the time they could win the league

For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.

I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.

Every time I step up to the plate, I expect to get a hit. If I don't expect to get a hit, I have no right to step into the batter's box in the first place.

When Ginger Rogers danced with Astaire, it was the only time in the movies when you looked at the man, not the woman.

Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable.

Yelling doesn't win ball games. It doesn't put any points on the scoreboard. And I don't think words win ball games all the time. Players do. Preparation does.

What happens is, when I perform, I'm somewhere else. I go back in time and get in touch with who I really am. I forget my troubles, my worries.

There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.