Quotes About Performance

I'm just a Chicago actor who's a playwright. Even with the success of 'August,' the people in town who come to our theater know me by sight, because they've seen me onstage so much.

I don't think, as an actor, you should define what genre you want to do. Once you do that, you lose the sight to see the film and what its story is all about.

I think a lot of people fail to work on their sight, even though it's probably one of the most important sides to tennis. It's also about reactions and concentration and focus, and I think it's all very closely related.

Some musicians are a bit humourless about their art: they lose sight of the fact that as well as exercising their muse, they're there to entertain.

Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.

You've got to set your sights high and expect to be scrutinised. When you play for a big club like Celtic, you're always going to come under pressure. That's to be expected.

Once you sign on as an actor, you know, you don't go to the editing room, you don't see how they cut, you don't see how they score, you don't see how they cast the rest of the movie.

I think you sign up to win games, and compete, and go out there and lead a team no matter how you can do that.

In September 1968, Rush played for around 20 people at a small hall in a church basement. We played songs like 'Spoonful,' 'Fire' and 'Born Under a Bad Sign,' and got paid $10. Then we went to a nearby deli and ordered Cokes and French fries and started planning our future.

When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.

I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract.

Years ago, I did a CBS audition. I was nervous. They introduced me as 'Scott Bakoola.' Not a good sign. I also didn't get the show.

Reinforcement learning is the idea of being able to assign credit or blame to all the actions you took along the way while you were getting that reward signal.

The signal of the importance of something is whether you're actually measuring it and you're holding people accountable to improving those numbers.

In day-to-day life, our brain sends lots of signals. In acting, there are no signals. You have to believe in what you are trying to portray.

You don't want to give the defensive back any signals about what route you're going to run.

There's no really signature Leo DiCaprio role, like Jack Nicholson is Jack Nicholson no matter what movie he's in.

People always ask me about 'Spaceman,' and I think that's my signature song, and I still open with it.

We always try to make up a new signature dance for our songs.

I play mostly Gibsons. In fact, they have just given me a signature guitar.

To me, our signature song was 'Rosanna.' That was the ultimate Toto track, where everybody had a chance to shine.

My signature move is the ballin' elbow, because I'm a baller.

I signed on as the clown, and, by golly, I'll keep up my end of the bargain.

As soon as I signed with Ferrari it was clear to me that people expected big performances from me. Even though people were realistic enough to see that I was only starting my second season and that I still had a lot to learn.