Quotes About Performance

As an actor, it filled me with joy that 'Raazi' was well-received and it gave me an identity and improved me as an actor. It was Meghna Gulzar's guidance that brought out the best in me. She is a receptive filmmaker who knows the art of extracting a performance.

Intelligent players are receptive and capable of implementation.

And so Fannie Mae produces very strong results for investors in - when interest rates are high and when interest rates are low, in recession and during booms.

If I had to say the secret recipe for acting melodrama, I think it comes from myself in real life. I have a belief that when I do melo scenes, I try to make them less cheesy.

I'm sometimes accused of being hostile to mutual funds. That's not fair, really. There is a place for them. Still, I am hostile to one thing, which is trying to use funds to time your way in and out of the market. That's a recipe for very bad results.

I am basically very introvert and shy, but when in the presence of the audience, my celeb image requires me to reciprocate their affection.

I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.

I think all of our concerts, really, as parties. It's a performance for sure. It's not a recital. It's a celebration of that music.

I may play the same program from one recital to the next, but I will play it differently, and because it is always different, it is always new.

For dance recitals, my mom would do my makeup all extravagant because obviously I was really little and where else would I be wearing makeup? We would always be in her bathroom before the dance recital, and she'd do our hair and makeup.

The guitar was not treated very seriously as a concert recital instrument.

When you're on TV, you're looking at a half-page of material, trying to memorize it really quickly. By the time it's on TV, I've already forgotten what I said, but I can still recite my whole role from Shakespeare in the Park. It works a different set of muscles.

If you can read, then you can recite Shakespeare. But that's not acting.

If you put me against most sprinters in the world, I reckon over a start I could get very close, if not take them.

Christopher Walken would make a bed time story pretty interesting I reckon.

I reckon we work better in front of big crowds.

As late as 2009, 90 per cent of Afghans reckoned Karzai's performance was excellent, good or fair.

I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off.

I've been on the road for four years. I won't recognise the place again, until I walk out on stage.

There are lots of wonderful actors doing animated films these days, but I prefer it when you can't recognise them - it means they've really become the character.

Every time I do a film, I have to make sure that when someone looks at me, they can't recognise Disha. It has to be a character. I want to do strong roles.

Dancers are not like movie actresses. People look at our bodies, not our faces. They only recognise me when I sign my name on something and they say, 'Ah yes, Sylvie.'

The Ballon d'Or is nice, but at the end of the day, I want to have success and play good, and if people recognise me, then I'm happy.

In any footballer's head there comes a point where he recognises that he needs to be playing more games.