Quotes About Performance

Doing comic roles is a great relief considering the power-packed roles that are usually offered to me.

When I go onstage, I want to relieve your mind, your pressures.

Players are human and when they get the opportunity to relieve the pressure, some deal with it in different ways.

I'm not an artist that vents through my music. I don't do it to relieve stress. I do it for the purpose of entertaining.

The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.

I'm often cast as religious figures, good and bad, such as 'Kingdom Of Heaven.'

In terms of trying to inspire other people with faith to play and stuff I am very proud of that. I remember seeing Muslim athletes or guys with other faiths performing and still carrying the label of being a religious person and it does inspire people.

That's something I like about drag - I get to do everything. Collaborative arts are hard for me because I don't really like to relinquish control.

Stats are for losers. They relish in them.

Playing in front of a crowd is something you learn. You accept it and then you start to relish it.

I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.

I relish performing.

I love playing grotesques, I relish it.

Playing live is much more natural for me. The instant reaction and the feedback from the audience is great for me. I really relish it. And if you play blues-based music, it's not really academic music or recital music. It really needs a bit of atmosphere and a bit of interplay and a bit of roughness, and you really get that with an audience.

People don't always realize that as a performer, you've got to relive those moments. Memories crash through your brains, and you've got to think about your past and the reason why you wrote the song. All that emotion comes back.

I come from a much freer kind of performance thing, where I rely on my own improv and my own sense of humor.

As a quarterback, you certainly don't want to hamstring your team in any way because - I know this more than anyone - you rely so heavily on those playmakers around you.

Jumping isn't as important to my training as you might think; I'm only in the sandpit once a week. There's a high risk factor of injury doing it, so instead, I rely on my progress in the gym to judge how far I'll jump on the big day.

I rely on people who can deliver.

You can compare the retail business to basketball. You have to have a plan, you have to hustle, you have to rely on each other, and there's a scoreboard on the wall.

Boxing does not favor boxers over 35 who rely on reflexes.

I think what helps enormously is the cultural environment that you have set. We constantly try to monitor it. When you have a base to work from that holds it together, that's something that you can go back to and rely on. A lot of is down to the consistency of work, the consistency of message and the consistency of the players' performances.

To be able to rely completely on the actors was a very simple process for me.

Sometimes you go into a film and you have no time to prepare and have to compress the details into a few days and then rely on the instinct and what happens when you're in a scene with other actors and that chemistry or not.