Quotes About Performance

I'm always aware that there are, broadly speaking, two different ways to act: there is acting, and then there's being, and I'm always more interested in that.

I know what I want, and I know what needs to be done to make my performance better. So I do these little askings, about the lights and costumes. It's not the diva speaking. It's the artist who knows how it has to be done.

I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read or overhear the voice in the poem - you are the voice in the poem.

For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.

I consider myself a pretty good extemporaneous speaker. Even though I don't like speaking in front of people, I don't think I'm bad at it.

I don't like speaking publicly when I don't have to be funny.

As a footballer I think your own history speaks for itself.

My success rate speaks for itself.

I prefer to be a great team not only on paper but also on the pitch. The pitch is the truth. The pitch speaks.

You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.

My body of work speaks for itself.

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

There are lots of actors who insist on speaking the lines themselves, and you hear the same thing from directors and the audience, but I don't think it's worth getting het up about. I think it makes more sense to use someone who speaks that country's language: that's what voice actors are for.

I think my music speaks for itself - it backs me up.

I'm someone that speaks with their pads.

I appreciate actors who work very hard to get at the truth of the character they're playing. That speaks to me, and I try to protect that process because I value the focus and intention behind it.

Since I'd developed this fear of not remembering my lines, I took 'Mulholland Drive' as a test for myself. It was a long monologue: no one else speaks.

Every team has a play style, in my opinion. The video speaks for itself; that's what we always pay attention to.

That's the great thing about being an actor: getting the opportunity to do something that really speaks to you.

I think the hardest accent for me to do is what I end up trying a lot of times, and it's like some sort of a general American sound. So not Southern and not east-coast or west-coast, but just a general American sound that no one really speaks, actually.

I feel I have nothing to prove at all, my scoring rate in La Liga speaks for itself.

Obviously, talent speaks for itself, so, yeah, you got to go in there, and you got to play well. You got to play your game, but that's kind of the easy part in some ways.

Sometimes, I know it's not me that makes this music. Like, when the Based God comes, he speaks to me. It's not me, even though I'm there playing the music live, myself.

My record speaks for itself.