Quotes About Performance

That's what I'm paid to do, is kind of shut down my side of the field and open up plays for other guys at times.

If I try to be fast then I'm no good, so it's better just to shut everything off and let instinct take over.

We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.

Sometimes on sets, I shut down, try to focus.

I can't talk on the radio at all. When the red light comes on, my hands go up in the air: I think they're trying to get to my face, to shut me up. I don't talk on stage for the same reason.

Sometimes I find myself in this super-raw place onstage where I'm like, 'Maybe that's not the best thing. Maybe I need to shut down a little.'

The thing that makes you a good 'Caraoke Showdown' singer is you gotta have some knowledge of these songs. You gotta be ready to attack. You gotta shut your brain off and just go.

I've never been a guy that's consistently hit home runs. It's always seemed to come, like, three or four in a week or two, and then I'll shut it down for a couple of weeks.

When I'm on the pitch, I'm happy. I can shut everything else out.

It's better I keep my mouth shut. Let my feet do the talking.

You're playing or you're not playing. If you're playing, so just shut up and play.

My philosophy is, 'Show up, shut up, and do your job,' and if you do it to the satisfaction of your director and the public, you're likely to be able to do it again.

I think our sense as actors of what we've just done - whether or not it be in an audition - is usually really not connected to any truth. I'm always asking for more takes and more goes. I think I just need to shut up and listen.

People know I am not blind or have super strength, yet they believed in my characters in 'Oppam' and 'Pulimurugan.' It's that belief of the audience that is also my greatest strength. Once that is gone, I might have to shut up shop and look for another job.

When I sing, people shut up.

As a dancer, you dance and you shut up. You don't open your mouth. I started using the media as psychiatrists, I guess, they were someone to talk to.

I was a shy kid with a broom handle that I pretended was a microphone.

I'm a little more shy and not comfortable dancing in front of a large crowd.

The on-stage Gracie may look poised, but the real Gracie is shy, a little self-conscious, and, before every performance of my life, panicky.

At school, I was a shy lad and still am. But acting gives me licence to be up there, demanding the focus. It's the one time in my life where I don't have to shout to be heard.

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

Even though I feel I am a bit reticent and shy, performing arts like dancing and acting is like my alter ego.

I'm too shy to do kissing scenes.

I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.