Quotes About Performance

I am very good at comedy off screen. I wish I could translate it so that you could get to see how mad I am.

I feel that if the situation arises when the skipper hands me the ball, I should be confident that I can do the job, and only then will that translate into performance.

If you're going to go to an audition, you don't want to go in trying to force yourself into some archetype that has been thought up by a director and translated by a casting director.

When someone says 'Action,' you just get on with it and hope that that is translated onto the screen for other people to see. All you can ever do is work as hard as you can on it and make sure you're doing your job.

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.

Actors don't have to be linked in real life for the chemistry to be translated on screen.

Once I started getting serious about standup I got a better handle on word economy and making jokes punchier, which translated well to Twitter.

In my mind, I slowed down and I feel like I translated it over into my game.

Being real in pro wrestling has paid off. Just being myself - that really translated to the fans.

My background in gymnastics, martial arts, and dancing has translated very well in the ring.

After 20-plus years of looking purely from an individuals point of view as a player, now I have to look at it from a coachs perspective, getting into players heads, delivering my message in the right way so that what I'm telling them ends up getting translated out on the pitch.

No translation can possibly be perfect. Every production and every performance is a different path up the mountain, and nobody ever makes it all the way to the summit.

My metaphor for translation has always been that translation is really a performance art. You take the original and try to perform it, really, in a different medium. Part of that is about interpretation and what you think the author's voice really is.

As a child, I would say that I wanted to become a dancer to honour music. For me, dancing is the physical translation of the audio recording.

When I act as a translator, I am really doing a performance for my fellow Anglophone readers in the West.

I don't want an underachiever working on my car's transmission. Why would I want someone regular sitting in the Oval Office? Sorry, give me somebody who has demonstrated a capacity to excel.

I shoot five or six times, go out and play defense and make sure everything is clicking. I'm like a transmission in a car. You can't see me, but I make the car go.

Not only do I lie, I take real pleasure in lying, in the transmission of magic effects.

I've always been a fan of the five-speed transmission - on anything.

You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

Dancing pleases me. I hope I transmit that to others.

I really like acting, but logically getting on stage to transmit the work of a composer who is inspired by God is something magical.

If the air quality is terrible in Los Angeles, if a particular university is unusually expensive, if crime is on the rise in Dallas, or if a company has a lot of recalled toys, transparency can spur change. Whenever public or private institutions have to answer to the public, their performance is likely to improve.

Maintain 'baseball cards' and/or 'believability matrixes' for your people. Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.