Quotes About Performance

Once you stop thinking about the minutiae of what each part might mean for your career, you learn that if you do a good performance, it's going to be good for you. The work is what matters.

I'm essentially an actor. And the fact that I got away with singing and dancing for a long time is still a miracle to me.

Del Potro is one of these miracle men he can come up with these matches where you least expect it and he pulls something out of the bag. I have no idea what it is but he becomes a magician.

Being in ballet school and being in leotards in front of a mirror I don't know how many hours a day was quite tough.

I'm not really that bothered by appearance. I know a few players who go off doing stuff in the mirror ages before they go out to play a game, but I'm not really interested in that.

From when I can remember, I wanted to be an actress. I am a die hard fan of dancing and would take my dad's clothes and my mom's clothes and dance in front of the mirror. I loved my dad's clothes, as they had a lot of glitter in them.

Some actors are what I call more like mirror actors, which means that they do a performance at home in front of the mirror, and then they go deliver it. I'm not that type.

I am an actor and this is holding the mirror up to nature, as it were.

I sang for 'Mirror Mirror.' I love singing.

As players, whenever the manager gets the sack, you have to look in the mirror and say it's not always the manager. It's down to the players.

When I used to work the road, I remember I used to ask myself in the mirror, literally, like in a movie, back when I was not very good at all, I'd say, 'What's it like being the greatest comedian in the world?'

I practice for hours in front of the mirror. I constantly deliver my routine in front of my friends.

Some actors are constantly on the phone, some are always looking into the mirror while some like to sit and bond.

During my adolescent years, I watched a lot of theatre. I had the habit of enacting every scene I saw in front of the mirror.

And I was mischievous. I was always into something. So when I got good attention from the singing, I knew that was probably where I needed to land.

I think people have a misconception of athletes when they think about what goes through their heads, you know what I'm saying?

The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

I think our live shows dispelled any misconceptions people had about us. When you come see us live, you know we're anything but a boy band.

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

A miserable karaoke experience is when people are trying really hard and trying to show off. You have to just be chill - that's what makes karaoke fun.

When I'm acting well, it's the most exhilarating experience. When I'm bad, it's miserable.

I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.

I used to watch actors and say, 'You poor suckers, that job looks miserable.'

If you look at the greatest performances of women, they're usually older... Anne Bancroft in 'The Graduate,' Kathy Bates in 'Misery.' It's a matter of characters having a life experience that makes them interesting.