Quotes About Performance

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. -General Omar N. Bradley This morning I threw up at a board meeting. I was sure the cat was out of the bag, but no one seemed to think anything about it; apparently it's quite common for people to throw up at board meetings.

I had rather be hissed for a good verse than applauded for a bad one.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

In the three years I played ball, we won six, lost seventeen and tied two. Some statistician ... calculated that we won 75 percent of the games we didn't lose.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

I think I look good out there. I'm strong, powerful, and artistic. But I have my doubts as much as anyone.

Without class differences, England would cease to be the living theatre it is.

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.

If you have to be in a soap opera, try not to get the worst role.

We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell. We all leak oil.

I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing partner. I'm very focused on the ball. Then it's over.

Play out the game, act well your part, and if the gods have blundered, we will not.

The end of man is action.

Talking is easy, action difficult.

Boast not of what thou would'st have done, but do.

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.

The test of any man lies in action.

Acting can work a peculiar magic on the actor ... it can cure you (at least for the length of a performance) of a whole variety of ailments. Migraine headaches, miserable colds or toothaches will suddenly disappear as you're up there going through your paces.

Performance releases pressure.

Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus.

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself.

Acting is happy agony.