Quotes About Performance

At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

You read a script, and you know if you need to do it.

I am not a good cue card reader.

A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them.

I was at 14 or 15 different clubs when I was younger, and I didn't play that well when I was away. I would readily admit that now, there was a lot of disappointment as a kid.

When I came into politics, I remember reading these scorecards of my performance, and I would routinely have these comments about not being assertive enough.

Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

I want to seem completely bare. Especially when I'm reading for a role. I want to reveal myself in the audition room. That's where I'm happiest.

Everybody has to be accountable on every play. The main thing is that we have to do our job. Going through all of the keys, making sure we are making the right reads, blocking the right person and getting the right route depth. Everything.

At the end of the day I'm a basketball player. I'm going to try and shoot more threes than mid-range or long twos or whatever. But if someone gives you a shot, you're a basketball player, you got to make reads and play.

I think there are a lot of actors who are excellent at cold reads, and they go to an audition, and they read the part and nail it, but then when it comes to the performance, they don't have something.

Teams are trying to get the advantage over the other team by what kind of reads we can get, how can we measure guys if they're tired - all these things.

I feel like I'm making the right plays and right reads each and every night, so if I keep doing that the assists are going to come.

When you're critical of yourself and your play, you just look at your reads, you look at how fast you can get the ball out.

The thing with Netflix is everyone who reads this article can go to Netflix, watch 'Live in Oakland' and come to D.C. and see me do a different show. It's a constant source of people getting to know me.

There's no drill that you can do as a DB to get ready for what I do on the field.

When it was time for me to get in the ring, I was ready.

The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night.

The fact that Eddie Vedder likes to play 3 hour plus shows a night, I have to be ready for that.

It's those moments when everything is on the line, and someone needs to show up in a big moment. I prepare my mind and I prepare my body to be ready for those moments. And I think it's just what I do. I live for those moments.

Just do your best to be accountable for what you have to do and be ready to go.