Quotes About Performance

I once told someone I could act. They totally bought it. I've been getting away with it ever since.

You don't want to shock them and do something totally opposite, but you also want to play a different character.

I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode.

I don't think I've ever played the Olympia before, but I'm not totally sure.

I find acting conservatories really important. I've gone to four different ones, and all of them provided totally different tools for me.

I want to do more movies. I feel like it's a totally different skill set than there is to theater. It's much more internal.

I'm a freak, everything has to be totally flat when I play. Ed Will, my jazz teacher, set up everything completely flat, and then you'd tilt your snare drum away from you, so I do that too. So my snare tilts away from me.

We're actually doing something scripted that's totally, you know, we kind of know what's going on, however, we're having to live life and death as the art.

As an actor, if I show up late somewhere or I say something that's eccentric, it's totally acceptable - not only that, it's lauded in some perverse way.

I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.

Personally, I wouldn't mind going on stage naked, totally naked.

I enjoy playing people that are totally different than me.

You won't ever see me being totally sexy on 'Rookie Blue.' It's not right for the character, anyway.

You never stop thinking about technique, but really, the reason we're actors is because of the sheer joy of those few moments you get every now and again where you're totally present. The rest is just struggle and misery.

Being a VJ, I never had an issue being in front of the camera. I'm totally at ease and that's my saviour.

The snapshots represent the characteristics and practices of successful companies at a specific point in time, not those of struggling ones; or of executives who perform better than others at the time of the snapshot. Explicitly or implicitly, they then assert that if you want to perform as well as the best-performing ones, you should copy what the best companies and the best executives do. My colleagues and I have eschewed the profession

begin by asking, "If every other aspect of our team's performance remained at its current level, what is the one area where significant improvement would have the greatest impact?

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

I would like to do a sports movie.

Says Stevie, "That two hours on stage is beautiful and always was even in the midst of the worst times. And, really, each one of us was way too proud to and way too stubborn to just walk away from it. We like touring. We like making money. And we like being a band. But, it's like a marriage—you're married to five people—and sometimes you've just got to have some space.

The whole world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

All the world's a stage, and most of us are desperately under-rehearsed.

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

IQ and success are related...to a point. Sure, someone with an IQ of 150 (a "genius" by all normal standards) is going to do much better in life than someone with an IQ of 80 (nearly "mentally disabled").