Quotes About Performance

RESISTANCE NEVER SLEEPS Henry Fonda was still throwing up before each stage performance, even when he was seventy-five. In other words, fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day.

A map does not just replicate the shape of a territory; rather, it actively inflects and works over that territory.7 Films and music videos, like the ones I discuss here, are best regarded as affective maps, which do not just passively trace or represent, but actively construct and perform, the social relations, flows, and feelings that they are ostensibly "about." In

the script and heard the score

As it is, we could not call mine a beautiful puss, but it does the job well enough, distinguishing the front of my head from the back.

pretending to do something when you're doing nothing is an art form in itself.

that acting was truthful emotions in false circumstances.

I would act, pretend, and the pretense would become real.

l'émission soit une réussite.

H-how many people?" she asked. "About four hundred." Dear God. The room spun and dipped. The buzzing got worse, as did the pressure on her chest. She was going to die, right here at Amy's school. "I know it's more than you were expecting, but how could we tell people no? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. To hear someone of your caliber play live." If the panic didn't ease, they were going to hear her play dead.

The big deal is that if employees aren't engaged, your company will suffer.

Pašovi invited me to see his Grad (City), a collage, with music, of declamations, partly drawn from texts by Constantine Cavafy, Zbigniew Herbert, and Sylvia Plath, using a dozen actors;

Acting is all about finding truth in made-up situations. I know that seems like a paradox, that's why it's hard. An actor's job is to be completely honest while pretending to be someone else, in a place that's dressed up to look like somewhere else, while telling a story that isn't true.

I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

All magicians lie and this one more than most

Ever seen the old conjurer's trick of a lady sawn in half? There's a strong aroma of sawn lady about this...don't you smell it?

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

Your music is perfectly tuned to get the results you are now getting.

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool.

The only thing worse than opera is someone who hums along with opera.

There are few things in this life more bamboo-under-fingernails than good poetry read aloud badly-unless it is bad poetry read aloud badly.

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.

In every discipline, the ability to be clearheaded, present, cool under fire is much of what separates the best from the mediocre.

I knew how to block out my issues in a sprint, but in marathons I ran out of gas. Consistency became a critical problem. On days that I was inspired, I was unstoppable. But other days I would play bad chess. The time had come for me to learn the science of long-term, healthy, self-sustaining peak performance.

Once we learn how to use adversity to our advantage, we can manufacture the helpful growth opportunity without actual danger or injury. I call this tool the internal solution—we can notice external events that trigger helpful growth or performance opportunities, and then internalize the effects of those events without their actually happening. In this way, adversity becomes a tremendous source of creative inspiration.