Quotes About Performance

Meryl's Donna embodied the spirit of ABBA and 'Mamma Mia!' in the first film.

I will never be a Robert De Niro or Meryl Streep, the kind of actor that disappears into a role.

Meryl Streep is awesome.

I know that every actor that I know, when Daniel Day-Lewis does a film, and he doesn't work that often, but we run to the theater to see what he's up to, and with such delicious excitement. The same goes for Meryl Streep.

Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts act themselves senseless in 'August: Osage County,' and by the time they're finished, they've acted their movie senseless, too.

I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.

Anna Magnani, Sophia Loren, Meryl Streep - I love actresses that are strong and fragile at the same time. They bring complexity to their roles.

We West Indian cricketers are always proud to play for the West Indies and we know we are made up of different islands and different cultures but we have to be able to mesh together, to come together and perform as a team.

Play the pentatonic blues scale, just for fret- and pick-hand dexterity and to mesh them both together.

I'm used to changing a lot of the dialogue. But if I feel like the script is working, I don't want to mess with it.

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

That's the last thing I want to do is go on up there and mess up, you know, in front of America.

In acting, you have to fool yourself - you mess with yourself into believing things.

I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music.

I love cover songs, but I always mess up the words!

You know, I've always tried to look at things as just what the part was. I never tried to worry about whether it was the lead or not the lead, because I think you can really mess your mind up when you're too caught up in those things.

If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.

I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.'

I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

I don't need to be in New York. If you've had a bad game, they're booing you and all that mess.

You get into the game and you know you're probably not going to be in there long. It's like, while I'm in here, I better not mess up. That's the completely wrong mentality to have. That works against how I play because how I play is 150 percent, going all out, going crazy.

People talk about the drama of the set that goes on and on. But it leaves one guy exhausted for the next round, it's horrible for the players waiting to come on court, and it has the potential to mess up the schedule for everyone.

When you get to a point of stop trying to not mess up and just playing basketball, you've got that base of comfortability.

When you are the lead, you feel that if you mess it up the whole film can fall around you.