Quotes About Performance

An incompetent teacher is even worse than an incompetent surgeon because a surgeon can only cut up one person at a time.

I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.

The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

If the chi is being wasted by useless activities, emotions and associations that drain us, then we don't have enough power when it comes time to perform.

I want the people who came to listen to have a good time as well. So it's a matter of playing a control game when all I really want to do is go out there and sing.

If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.

The rehearsal time is almost my favourite part of being an actress, particularly if you're working on a play that hasn't been done before.

It was my first time in Kansas City. In about two or three days I had a gig at a place called The Monroe Inn.

I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.

I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.

I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.

High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances.

Because he stinks on the power play. He stinks. I don't know why. I wish I could put him on the power play, but every time I put him on, he stinks.

Figure skating is a bit dated - it's like that tweed jacket you pull out of the back of your closet from time to time, and I'm going to try to Chanel it up a little bit.

Excellent! I will still be in time for the ballet!

I know that every time I step on the stage it's a real gift ,so I try not to take it for granted, and I try to make it an experience that the public can really participate in.

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.

To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and chords ironed out.

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

That's usually what happens with AC/DC: you make an album, and then you're on the road flat out. And the only time you ever get near a studio is generally after you've done a year of touring.

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

I like to think about what the song is saying, the story of it, and conveying the mood of that to the audience. But at the same time, sharing through interacting with them and engaging them.