Quotes About Performance

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.

The reason I play so hard is that somewhere out there is some kid who has never seen me play before, and I don't want to disappoint him.

I love performing. It's a phenomenal getaway. If you want to really let out everything you feel, that's the time to do it.

I'm not thinking home run, I just want to put a good swing on the ball. When you go looking for home runs, you get off of your swing. So you don't think of homers when you go up to the plate.

When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win?

More than the time, it's about how you feel - you want to be strong throughout the race.

A lot of people don't believe in what they are doing. They just want the crowd to scream for them.

I do about 90 percent of my own stunts, and the things I can't do for insurance reasons, like swinging out of a flying helicopter, I wouldn't want to do anyway.

When I recorded for Columbia, I could usually do anything in one take...I would invariably want to use the first take because that would be the one that was spontaneous and fresh.

I would like to continue acting. But also - if this is a dream world where everything could become true - I'd want to be a ballerina.

You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to swim my races.

Music makes my heart beat. The more i hear, sing and perform on stage my heart beats stronger than ever. I want to live like this until the day i die.

When you go to standup, there seems to be a common denominator of some form of need or want for validation from the audience that maybe you were lacking as a kid.

When bands are on stage and they ask the crowd, "Are you having a good time?" what they're really saying is, "I just want a bit of reassurance - is everything all right?"

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

Every artist should want to be like Michael Jackson

If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell.

I come from the theatre, my bones are in the theatre; it's as natural as breathing to want to be in the theatre

As players and coaches, we all want to reach our goal. It's up to us to go out there and perform.

Rap and dance is pretty much what I want to be known for.

The last player you want the ball to go to is the best player on the planet.

When I get to tell a story through music videos or TV, it's all about finding the story that I want to tell, so I'm definitely open to acting roles, it just depends on the story.

Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we're embarrassed because that's not the way we want to play soccer.

In film, other actors' performances really are not your concern. If the other actor isn't giving you what you want, act as though he were.