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Quotes About Performance

I tried to sing 'What's Going On' with Amy Winehouse once at an old cinema in the West End. There was a funk band that had members of both of our bands playing in it, but it was the worst kind of place to sing bad karaoke because everyone there was an amazing singer or musician.
~ Jamie Cullum
In baseball, you can hit 40 home runs on a single-A-league team and never get paid a thing. But in a hedge fund, you get paid on your batting average. So you go to the worst league you can find, where there's the least competition.
~ Julian Robertson
The worst is when you bomb and when you bomb in front of someone you're trying to impress. That's the worst.
~ Ari Shaffir
Sonakshi Sinha's single 'Aaj mood ishqholic hai' is the worst auto-tuned song sung by an actor.
~ Amaal Mallik
Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.
~ Tea Leoni
The way I see it, thinking about the position of the club during the swing is about the worst way to play golf. It makes you tight and defensive, which kills your natural speed and rhythm. Although there's obvious value to minding your technique, at best you'll play an OK round. Where's the fun in that?
~ Rickie Fowler
I'm probably the worst fantasy league player ever. I don't really score that often, and I get booked quite a lot as well - when you get booked, you lose points.
~ Jack Wilshere
Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.
~ Jonathan Groff
I cannot watch my own dailies, ever. I'm my worst critic. It distracts me. I can watch it when it's done, but I'm not the girl that wants to run back and look at the performance.
~ Eliza Dushku
Singing karaoke is my worst nightmare. But in the car, I rock out to anything Bon Jovi or Beastie Boys.
~ Adam F. Goldberg
The worst enemy of coaches is expectations.
~ Carlos Carvalhal
I've always loved acting but never thought I could do theatre because I got the worst stage fright ever.
~ Daisy Lowe
Having a sold-out show takes a lot of the pressure off because I know that it's going to be a room full of people who are excited to be there. The worst part - or the part that I'm adjusting to - is the actual act of traveling. The hotels are pretty trash.
~ King Princess
If you're shy when you're singing, that's the worst combination.
~ Stefflon Don
Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best.
~ Fred W. Friendly
I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.
~ Richard Marx
I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.
~ Kenneth Branagh
The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I've ever made was try to do things to please the audience thinking how the audience is going to respond if I do this.
~ Terrence Howard
As an actor, being on autopilot is the worst thing possible.
~ Matthew Perry
Behind the notes, something different is told, and that's what the interpreter must find out. He may sit down and play one passage one way and then perhaps exaggerate the next, but, in any event, he must do something with the music. The worst thing is not to do anything.
~ Vladimir Horowitz
The worst thing for me when I go to a concert is a whole bunch of ballads. You get bored.
~ Darius Rucker
Although simulators are great for building step-by-step knowledge of a procedure, the worst thing that can happen in a sim is that you get a bad grade on your performance.
~ Chris Hadfield
Shooters shoot. The worst thing a shooter can do is think. That's the best defense out there.
~ Jamal Crawford
The worst thing that ever happened to me on stage is someone ran forward to tell me they loved me and projectile vomited all over the stage. It was horrible.
~ Joan Rivers