Quotes About Performance

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I've trained that way, I've actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn't come. It's almost because my training has been too hard.

Then I trained as an opera singer for four years before I started singing professionally as a pop act.

Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we were trained - until now - in theatre.

I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.

I trained as a stage actor and was given a lot of technical tools to play with.

I am a trained singer in Hindustani and classical music.

I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.

Let me say I was trained at Juilliard. I have a very high standard. I expect everybody around me to work equally as hard because people pay a lot of money for tickets. They demand the best that we have.

I'm trained in musical theatre and 'Pitch Perfect' is the first movie where I get to really belt out. I beat Adele for that role.

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

I'm a trained classical baritone.

I'm not a trained actor, so there was always going to be a certain amount of bringing my own... I was going to say skills but they're not really skills, it's just stuff that I know how to do I suppose.

I'm not a classically trained actor. I'm not a product of Stavlovski method or anything like that.

I'm trained in the theater, and acting, for me, is about the imaginative life I create for myself, not about basing it on something real. I think that whatever I create becomes the reality for the audience.

I trained in theater. And I started in theater with my first two jobs doing stage plays.

I used to do a lot of fencing in the theater and a lot of horse riding in the early days, so I'm used to it in a way. If you're classically trained like I am, it's a little bit like mother's milk to me. I enjoy it.

In acting class, you're trained to express yourself as much as you can.

People will always have their opinions on how hard you trained, especially when they only see you on fight night.

I trained in the theatre.

Back in 2004 I trained at an independent wrestling school and performed in front of crowds of around 200, then I got signed to a contract with the WWE to continue my development.

I trained at Juilliard so that I could do all kinds of genres, so that's what I'm trained to do.

The WWE Performance Center is absolutely magnificent and like nothing I have ever seen or trained at before.

I had learnt horse riding while shooting for a Bengali film earlier and was trained in sword fighting on the set of 'Manikarnika'.

Having trained in theatre, that is what I enjoy most as it gives the scope to grow as an artist with every individual performance.