Quotes About Performance

The lights are better, safer, and start at around $20. They use less battery power. Normally you get 8 to 10 hours of battery life on a standard light. You can get 150 hours with the LED.

When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.

I think I find it easier to live on the stage than in life.

As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting.

One can always lament, you know — but to laugh in the face of life, that's very hard. And for me the great tragedian should also be a great comedian.

The better the actor, the less you know about his life. I mean, nobody's better than De Niro and you don't know anything about him, right?

If I have a great game, I don't get too high. If I have a terrible game, I don't get too low. I know that there's more to this life and we were created for more than just to play a game.

As an actor, you've got to maintain a bit of mystery and at least part of your private life, otherwise the game is up.

I can still stand on life's narrowest footing: but who would I be were I to show you this art. Would you like to see a ropedancer?

It is not the mere station of life that stamps the value on us, but the manner in which we act our part.

It'll play in Peoria.

Competence excuses strange behavior.

Our department takes 1,120 calls every day. Do you know how many of the calls the public expects perfection on? 1,120. Nobody calls the fire department and says, 'Send me two dumb-ass firemen in a pickup truck.' In three minutes they want five brain-surgeon decathlon champions to come and solve all their problems.

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.

I think you're wonderful too, Hal!" Stephan said, in a workmanlike approximation of Ophelia's breathless, admiring tones. The crew laughed even harder. Lydia snorted through her nose.

He imagined many years must have passed since a jongleur had chosen to pinch that ample backside.

As a jongleur, however, it was totally in character for him to make jokes at the slightest opportunity. Even bad ones. Especially bad ones, he amended.

Some players are so bad they are hated. Some players are so bad they are forgotten. And some are so bad that they are loved, talked about, treasured.

At the beginning of the day, when you're doing a show like this, you want to entertain and you want people to have a really fun time...but at the end of the day you want them to walk out feeling changed and taking something more away from it...and it's really kind of rare that you get to do that all in the same night.

if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority...

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

Twice today I've got to play Hamlet, this great part that I shall never play again. And I can't do it today. I could do it tomorrow, or next week, but I can't do it now.

I pride myself, after long experience, that I can begin and stop weeping at the exact points demanded in the script.

High-Performance Habits" by Brendon Burchard.