Quotes About Performance

When I started on 'Saturday Night Live,' I had the choice of wearing contact lenses, which I had never worn before, or glasses, in order to be able to read the cue cards.

I like to wear the same kind of boots that I've worn in training going up to the game so that I've got a feel for the boots.

When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up a bit. It's still a little bit stiff until you really thrashed at it for a few weeks.

Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage.

I think that every band, whether they admit it or not, is going out there to succeed. I've always worn that on my sleeve.

I've worn costumes all my life. I'm a theatre actress, you know. That's what I do for a living. I dress up, I wear makeup, I make a fool of myself.

The advantage doesn't come because you can run more than someone over 90 minutes. The advantage comes when, in the tenth minute, I'm sprinting back and making another guy chase me. By the end of the game, that guy's worn down, but I can still keep going at the same pace.

I'll never forget the dance number that I shot with Anushka. The choreography involved a lot of intricate dance moves. I'm at least 7 inches shorter than Anushka, so I had to wear the highest heels I've ever worn in my life; throughout the song, I even injured my knee a couple of times.

I've worn a 100% polyester cheerleading outfit in stadiums full of people - it is pretty hard to embarrass me.

You feel worn down at the end of every year, regardless of whether you have power numbers or not.

If you're talking, you gotta back it up. When you're a little kid, and you know you're the fastest in your grade, and y'all go out for Field Day, you tell everybody you're gonna win. You're not worried about it, because you know you're the fastest.

I was so worried about winning, it was as if I was caught up in my own web.

There's scenes where I really want to get things right, and all the kids know me as the person who says, 'Sorry.' I think I've gotten a lot better with that, but it's still the thing that I'm still worried about, trying to get the scene perfect.

I don't get butterflies. I get a good feeling in my stomach before I compete. When I don't, I get worried.

When there's a rule that you can use only three engines for the whole season, and you are a team that is not worried about 2018, you are worried about being world champions in 2020, you need to make progress.

I always worried I'd forget my lines or say the wrong words or the audience would laugh in the wrong places.

When you prepare for something, you can then play around; you're not as worried about remembering your lines because you already know them so well. That's where you can find the freedom. So I'm all about prep work.

I'm worried about doing my best, playing to my potential, helping out my teammates, and trying to win games for the Giants.

Most amateurs are so worried about mis-hitting the shot or hitting it off line, they don't make an aggressive move. You'd be surprised how much better your swing will get if you let your natural athletic ability shine. So go after it.

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.

I'm not too worried about stats and stuff like that.

If you are good on the pitch, good in training, you will have your chance. I'm not worried about my place.

I don't think optimism is always the best quality for an actor, in the same way you wouldn't want a super-optimist to be a traffic controller - you want a guy that's really worried about every plane in the sky!

When I'm acting, I'm just worried about that piece of the pie, contributing to the whole. But when you're directing, you... get the vision out of your head and on the stage.