Quotes About Performance

Precisely at the moment when an athletic career is most on the line and fan perceptions of a Herculean, supra-human performance are highest, an athlete's brain may be at its most vulnerable.

All acting is nudity. It's all vulnerable - and a little bit scary.

Bits are fake conversations comedians have because they are uncomfortable being vulnerable with other human beings in any way.

As an actor, we have to be so vulnerable that it's really hard to involve yourself with the other aspects of filmmaking.

Luckily, on 'Kyle XY,' I had great training in being tough and vulnerable at the same time.

You just want to get it right so badly, so it's stressful when it comes to those vulnerable, dramatic scenes.

Ballet is something for which you need so much control and composure. And there's an element to acting that is the complete opposite. You have to be able to completely let go and reveal everything about yourself. It's about being very vulnerable.

Everything feels so personal when you're an actor because you're so open and vulnerable, and you have to trust your director to guide you to where the storytelling needs to go.

I think a lot of comedians make the best dramatic actresses because they have a facility. They're very vulnerable. They're very open, like clowns.

On 'Raw,' I'm the big mean girl who goes and beats everybody up; on 'Total Divas,' they will see a softer, vulnerable side of me that definitely isn't seen on 'Raw.'

People like Brel were sensitive and vulnerable; on stage, they dared to take risks.

I've always played different kinds of roles, and I probably played more vulnerable parts when I was really young.

I feel like, in acting classes, you'll get up sometimes; that's just the most vulnerable position you can be in. You're among your fellow actors, yet they look at you, and they're like, 'You've been on TV. You've been in movies.' It almost adds to the pressure.

With acting, it's my job to be emotionally vulnerable and accessible.

When you play at home in European football, you've got to come up with a happy balance where you get on the front foot and try to win it without leaving yourself vulnerable.

I think as an actor, you have to make yourself vulnerable to emotions.

Doing interviews after a game, you can't give your true emotions. You can't tap into them. So when you do that for so long, you go into acting and it can be difficult to suddenly just be open and vulnerable.

Playing '10,000 Days' in concert was very challenging but infinitely rewarding. It's much more sensitive and emotional than our other songs, and it requires pacing yourself and also being very vulnerable.

It was a slow process of getting closer and closer to my actual personality on stage. And now there's very little separation. I definitely find the more open and vulnerable I am, the more people enjoy it.

I've never been afraid of being vulnerable on stage. It's a large part of life, and I think it's being dishonest to disallow an audience to see that side.

I wanted to do standup, but I was too nervous. I felt it was too vulnerable basically to be yourself on stage.

When you're playing rock music to 10,000 people, you almost attack the audience. When you play acoustic you're waiting for the audience to respond. It's a reverse energy, and you're more vulnerable. It's really intense.

As an actor you have to be vulnerable or you're just not going to cut it.

I'm not over the top; I'm not wacky. I'm fairly understated, and that reflects in the way I sing.