Quotes About Performance

My approach every game is to try to keep the ball down and get ground ball outs.

Acting is not about showing what you're feeling. It's about doing something. It's about what you're doing for the other person. Anything other than 'doing' is not grounded in the truth.

I just like playing guys, normal dudes. That's the stuff that I really enjoy watching: when it feels grounded.

I like playing these characters who are just on the edge of ridiculous but always grounded in reality. I would never want to come across as a cartoon.

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

I have worked with the tavil and the mridangam all my artistic life. My style does have a strong grounding in rhythm.

When we had Brian Cox in 'Super Troopers,' we learned that when you put a great actor in the center of our lunacy, it grounds everything.

Paying attention to my breath makes me happy to be alive. And that really grounds me during a performance.

The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.

I know a lot of a cappella groups, but none of them are doing backflips while singing, for sure.

When you start acting as a child, you grow up ahead of your movies.

Growing up, I was always trying to catch a great show. And that's where I learned an artist gets respect. That's what makes people talk.

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.

I definitely see a correlation between how many things a company gets right and how fast a company grows.

Ballet can be grueling, for sure, but it gives you a certain discipline.

It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.

I don't like to do what I call 'the grunters' - a character who sits at a table and grunts and young people make fun of. I turn a lot of those down.

It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.

We can guarantee you that 15 to 30 seconds of any of our songs are going to be good. The rest, we can't guarantee.

You have to give your best as you can't guarantee the success of your film, but you can always give a good performance.

Just because you sell millions of records it doesn't guarantee bums on seats.

I give 100 per cent every time I go out there and I don't want to go out on the field unless I can guarantee doing that.

It doesn't matter if they buy me for, I don't know, £38 million or £40m - I am not guaranteed to play the games.