Quotes About Performance

As actors, we want to challenges ourselves and put ourselves in different situations to see how we react and deliver a performance.

I wasn't comfortable on stage for years. It was good - 18 shows. I want to do it again.

I've always been drawn to the best writing that I can find. I don't care if it's in movies or theater or whatever - if you want to be in front of an audience, you have to do writing you believe in.

If an actor is bored, then they are boring to an audience. I definitely don't want to ever be that.

[In "The Invisible Woman"] was a different type of performance which was less driven by improv. You always want moments of freshness and newness, but there was less so than I've done before.

Everybody likes to indulge in a bit of ice-cream and junk food. If you want to be a top player you've got to be sensible in terms of what you eat.

I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.

That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want to talk about mechanics.

Actors want to show off and dance in front of you and get your love, because they don't think they're worthy of it in any other way.

As if true honesty belonged to solitude, since to be witnessed was to perform, and performance was inherently false since it invited expectation.

There was music in death. Actors and musicians knew this as true.

if his efforts are mediocre, we're likely to let him live. If he shows us brilliance, we'll kill him.

The critical part of herself could well have sneered at the contrivance, as if the only genuine gestures were the small ones, the ones devoid of an audience. As if true honesty belonged to solitude, since to be witnessed was to perform, and performance was inherently false since it invited expectation.

how much a person's identity depends on what role he is playing.

The flesh is always self-reliant, while the Spirit creates Christ-reliance. The flesh always trusts in its performance; the Spirit gives confidence in Christ's performance.

mindset impacts emotion, which alters biology, which increases performance. Thus, it seemed, by tinkering with mindset—using everything from physical to psychological to pharmacological interventions—one could significantly enhance performance.

Flow is more than an optimal state of consciousness—one where we feel our best and perform our best—it also appears to be the only practical answer to the question: What is the meaning of life? Flow is what makes life worth living.

Hackers should be judged by their hacking, not bogus criteria such as degrees, age, race, or position.

Wyclef Jean performed the reggae song "Many Rivers to Cross," which

Do you believe that the actor on the stage is really a villain? Let me ask you something else. If he isn't a villain, then is he a liar?

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.

the quality of the CEO is the top factor in the success of the investment.

writing is like dancing, or sports, where the expression of grace come only through movement.

Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.