Quotes About Performance

My first time on stage was the class "graduation" at the Comedy Store. It was awesome. Everything got huge laughs and I just thought I knew how to do comedy.

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

This morning I was standing in the shower and thought how I was sick of losing and how it was about time I had a big game.

A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.

It's a pretty sure thing that the player's bat is what speaks loudest when it's contract time, but there are moments when the glove has the last word.

I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play.

The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.

In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.

I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn't sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I'm not one to make excuses.

I often get disoriented on stage. Half the time I don't even know where I am.

By the time Talking Heads were starting, my feeling was to throw out everything and start from scratch onstage; strip it down to as close to zero as you can get and then you can make it yours.

There are some actors that are so gifted, that move you in such a way that every time you see their names again, you go and pay another ticket because you want to have that experience again.

I play in front of 70,000 fans week in and week out, and I may drop the ball in practice, I may run the ball the wrong way, but once it's game time, it's game on.

A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time.

I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.

Production speed is severely slowed down if one works with half-time people who have other obligations as well. This is at least a factor of four; probably it is worse.

I never rehearse. Never! I think it's a waste of time.

Mastery is playing whatever you're capable of playing-every time-WITHOUT THINKING.

When I perform Strauss, it is as if the music fits me like a glove. My voice seems to lie in a happy area in this music, which is lyrical and passionate at the same time.

I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me.

Right now, for instance, we resist giving people extra time on exams or for assignments, as though it's unfair to the faster students.

I just meant as far as coming to the games on time; it was just like I was under the microscope, every little thing, it was like they were looking for me to come in here with my shoes untied.

I also like the banging piano - that old good-time piano.

As time went on, I got envious and wanted to do a lot of stunts myself