Quotes About Performance

Steve Punt and I have always tried to go so fast that its physically impossible to heckle.

I've always tried to have a healthy take on the characters I play; they are only characters I play.

During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.

I tried to do a puppet show on the streets, and I wasn't a very good street performer. But I found that I could stand in one place in Central Park and bounce a soap bubble on my arm, and I didn't have to gather a crowd for the puppet show. I had a crowd.

When you talk about goals, you look at your team last year and you want to move the meter a little bit. You don't want to go back and be the same team that you were last year, so we have tried to get better in some ways.

The film I did with Bobby De Niro, 'The King of Comedy' - an awful lot came to me out of that movie because De Niro never allowed me any room to be crazy. If I had tried to play it the way I would normally play it and get hysterical, Bobby would punch me.

I played the ingenue, of course, when I was young - but even with those, I tried to make interesting choices and mess them up a little bit - make them layered and complicated and not all stereotypes.

Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

But 'Night Herding Song' was funny 'cause we tried to record it in the studio in RCA one day, but theres no reverb in the room... Its really hard to do a piece like that without any reverb because you cant hear anything back.

I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.

In the past, I put too much pressure on myself. I went out there and I tried so hard to get the ball in the hole, I tried so hard to hit the perfect shots.

You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong.

The more everyone tries to do their own job, that's when the team fires on all cylinders.

In organizations, once you articulate how success will be measured, everybody tries to game the system so that they are measured in the best possible way.

The choir tries to perform for everyone. It enables us to be very diversified with our audiences.

Everyone tries to give 100 per cent for the team. If you can help with goals or assists then it's even more important.

There's a difference between fake hustle for show and being someone who tries hard to win.

I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.

Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.

When I go to shows, I'm really looking forward to hearing the songs I know. I don't like it when a band tries to expose me to new stuff.

Scarlett Johansson has a smile she tries to suppress in every movie she makes. She's been trying to keep a straight face since she appeared with Bill Murray 11 years ago in her breakthrough, 'Lost in Translation.'

Serial tasking is hard because switching tasks is hard, even when the tasks are easy and similar. In some experiments, bilingual speakers are asked to read out numbers, first in one language and then midway in another language. They often stumble at the switch, taking many tries before they hit their stride again.

The NBA tries to be about flash. But real fans recognize the guy who makes things happen.