Quotes About Performance

When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

I know the coaches definitely trust me and my ability to throw the football.

You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.

Trust is the one thing that affects everything else you're doing. It's a performance multiplier which takes your trajectory upwards, for every activity you engage in, from strategy to execution.

When you trust your director completely, then you can relax, be spontaneous, be malleable.

Good acting is thinking in front of the camera. I just do that and apply a sense of humor to it. You have to trust the audience to get it.

I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really trust my instincts. I like to talk and talk and talk until we have to do it. I feel the same about theater.

People are my most important asset. Faith in the supreme being, trust, credibility and performance are the things that have brought me to the top.

Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend.

I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.

Swimming and all other sports have got to get to that place where you have the trust of the people watching it.

The truth of ourselves is the root of our acting.

Baddies always do get the best lines, that's the honest truth.

When you sing, always tell the truth.

The older I've gotten, the more the need to exert comedy no matter how tragic a character I may be portraying because they are essentials for presenting truth.

Do you want to know the truth, or see me hit a few dingers?

Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.

The greatest piece of acting or music or sculpture or what-have-you always has its roots in the truth of human emotion.

I'm not a politician; I am a singer. Long ago, they said, 'That one, she sings politics.' I don't sing politics; I merely sing the truth.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

My only goal is to make you laugh, not tell you the truth.

I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

When you wrap up a task for someone who counts on you and/ or your team, why not take a moment to ask how it went? Why not ask, "Hey, how easy were we to work with?" In fact, why not ask them to rate you on a scale of one to 10 to let you know how hassle-free the experience of working with you or buying from you was? If you get any score less than a 10, then ask, "What would I need to do to get that up to a 10?