Quotes About Performance

If what Locke is doing were larking about, corpses could get jobs as acrobats.

Good evening, good evening, good evening!' yelled Epitalus. 'Good evening!' And then, as though anyone in the audience might conceivably remain unenlightened as to the quality or time of day: 'Good evening!' The string quintet ceased its humming and twanging

Q: How many alto singers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: None. They can't reach that high.

It is a fact—I say this from experience—that being severely anxious is depressing. Anxiety can impede your relationships, impair your performance, constrict your life, and limit your possibilities.

For the social phobic, any kind of performance—musical, sporting, public speaking—can be terrifying because failure will reveal the weakness and inadequacy within. This in turn means constantly projecting an image that feels false—an image of confidence, competence, even perfection.

fact—I say this from experience—that being severely anxious is depressing. Anxiety can impede your relationships, impair your performance, constrict your life, and limit your possibilities.

Social phobics worry that their interpersonal awkwardness or the physical manifestations of anxiety—their blushing and shaking and stammering and sweating—will somehow reveal them to be weak or incompetent. So they get nervous, and then they stammer or blush, which makes them more nervous, which makes them stammer and blush more, which propels them into a vicious cycle of increasing anxiety and deteriorating performance. Blushing

The unions say 'last hired - first fired ', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Talent? That's not talent. Talent is Liza Minnelli tap dancing and singing at the same time. What I just saw was devastation. Dying man on the cross. Salvation in B minor.

I think the first time I ever wore a tuxedo was when I played at the Talk Of The Town in 1967, because it was a nightclub and that was the thing to do.

If I can drop two touchdowns a game and win, I'll take it every time.

On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.

When I perform, it's definitely about duration. I don't play any kind of time signature known to man.

I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.

You would think that Freddy Couples-Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I'll tell you in skins, it's a matter of just hitting it at the right time.

I played a role. That is what actors do. But I played it too well. I went too far. And by the time I wanted to stop, to take a bow and leave the stage, it was too late.

Every character I do is something special to me. Every time you score with a great character relationship in a movie, it becomes your baby.

Any time you're playing a playoff-caliber team, it is always good to show well, because you don't know when you'll be seeing them again.

We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.

I remember last time I played Nocturnal Wonderland I dropped that 'Move 4 First Aid' mashup and people ripping their hair out... crazy night.

The first time I went out under the spotlight, I was proper freaked out.

My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.