Quotes About Performance

Put yourself into every situation in training and against every style of bowling, and do that for hours and hours and hours. Then when you get to a match, it's almost instinctive the way you play because you've done it so often in training.

Being an instinctive player is great but there's time in the past where I've let how I'm playing at the time affect me, thinking I can play some big shots and I'd be alright.

Acting has always been instinctive to me.

One day I had an instinct to put on a kaftan and go out and sing. People liked it out of the blue. An artist should be instinctive.

I certainly always do draw upon stuff in my life. You do that instinctively as an actor.

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

As an actor, you can think your way out of a lot of good things sometimes. I trust my instincts as an actor, and I trust the instincts of the creators, so it's a good combination.

As an actor, you tend to draw on your human instincts and your background, what you've gone through as an individual.

When you're out there and playing, things are going fast. You've just got to trust your instincts and what got you there.

Baseball is like any sport. It's mostly instincts.

When I was in film institute, stage plays were compulsory part of our training.

The church is an institution of music and of production and performance, and it has to do with taking people to places inside of themselves and giving them an opportunity to sit deep in their own feelings, and to be together and deeply alone at the same time, and to process things.

I've always been in institutional theater.

Today, the Americans have developed a new culture in science based on the slavery of graduate students. Now, graduate students of American institutions are afraid... He's got to perform. The post-doc is an indentured labourer.

I would always say I can sing, but I'm musical. I'm very good at following instructions, reading the music, and singing as it's written down, but there was a challenge when I had to improvise.

It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.

The script of a play is not a finished product: It's a set of instructions.

Every big-budget film is powered by a director's vision. I blindly follow the instructions of my director, believe in him, and deliver what he exactly wants from me.

I am completely a director's actor. If the director gives me the liberty and freedom, then I give my inputs. Otherwise, I just follow instructions.

When I went to Bollywood and used to give actors instructions, many of them would tell me that I am acting out exactly like Mohanlal. I learnt from one of the best actors in the country and I am proud of that.

I love telling stories, whether I'm the human instrument that helps tell that story, or I'm the man behind the curtain.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

The harmonica is a great instrument.

I despise people who revel in the ignorance of not being able to play their instrument.