Quotes About Performance

I grew up in a lot of stage managers' booths, memorizing the lines. I'm sure I was the most annoying child in existence.

Just memorizing and emoting, for that you get paid. But that isn't acting.

'Mnemonic' is a play about memory.

I'm just always learning lines. I've learned to flag the really crucial scenes, and I start figuring them out and committing them to memory as soon as I get them.

As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.

Great actors are people who just meld into the part without calling attention to the fact that they are so-and-so doing this part. They may never become huge stars, but will always, in memory, stay respected actors.

I got arrested once on stage in Memphis for looking too much like Liza Minnelli.

For the audience, actors carry out specific roles of men and women through the character that they play out on screen. The director on the other hand is not doing a gender-specific job. So, it is irrelevant if the person who makes a particular film is a man or a woman.

Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.

I know I've got the ability to bring a sense of menace to the screen. I have that specific competence, and it's generally kept me working.

In high school, you can just go out there and play. In the NFL it was so much more mental.

You use up a lot of mental energy in the Champions League.

Sometimes it feels like our mental health is directly linked to our performance on the pitch, and while I understand that it is of course a factor - it's not the whole picture.

In Denmark, you are sure to play if you were good, but Ajax played you if you did not have the mentality and went 100 percent to it.

I've got the same mentality every time I step on the floor - play my hardest and just be locked in.

I was in 'Christmas with the Crawfords' with Joey Arias. I did that for six years, so I have a holiday show mentality a little bit.

I hate canceling anything, I'm 'the show must go on' mentality. If you can crawl, you can take the stage.

I'll always have a score-first mentality, because that is my bread and butter on the floor.

I still have that forward's mentality that when I have the chances, it just ticks me off if I can't put it in.

In football, it is a question sometimes of the mentality, understanding the players, the atmosphere, the confidence.

I have to concentrate on my job and try to do my best in the things that I know. Coaching the team and trying to have a winning mentality.

Every time I have the ball in my hands, which is every play, I feel I'm the best player on the team. That's just my mentality. I'm not saying that in a cocky way, but everybody should have that mentality when they step on that field.

To be a Manchester United player, it requires a certain level of performance, mentality, and you have got to be proud to be a Manchester United player.

When you have a team that has won for 20 years, the mentality is strong. When you don't play well, you still know you are a strong team.