Quotes About Performance

When Phil and I hit that one spot where I call it 'The Everly Brothers,' I don't know where it is. 'Cause it's not me and it's not him. It's the two of us together. I sing the lead, and so I can drift off. Then we'll come back in together and the whole thing happens again. It amazes me sometimes.

In other ways, one way to be in a lineup or stay in a lineup or stay in a spot is to produce.

I'm the only person who's ever opened the Oscars or done a spot on the Oscars without a script and having it on autocue.

I have to put people in the right spot so that if they execute, we win.

When you put a new show out, you always have a few kinks that you need to iron out, and you need to dial your show in. You figure out over a couple of weeks what songs work well together and what songs may not have the impact you thought they would at that spot in the show.

When I step up to that penalty spot, I know the consequences. They're the same whether I miss the first, second, third - or the 10th - it will be the same.

Keerthy Suresh knows how to improvise and reworks her expression on the spot.

It is always a battle; it doesn't matter in which club or which position. If you don't perform well, even when you start, you might lose your spot in any position.

In my humble opinion, again, to perform at Alabama, you must earn the spot and not have it given to you. You have to fight like crazy to keep the spot and that it's not guaranteed - it's week to week - and you'll play in a way that they have a chance to win a championship.

I was so excited for my spot on the Mae Young Classic.

Obviously, you have to play well to keep your spot.

A mimicry artiste should be spontaneous and he should be able to crack jokes on the spot.

I use Auto-Tune but it's not to mask anything. If you come to see me live, I can sing on the spot. Auto-tune is just for the recording. It keeps everything really precise.

What could be more fitting - or more exciting - than to restage Shakespeare's plays on the very spot where they were first performed, in the shape and style of theater for which they were written?

There should be no more questions asked about India's number 4 batting slot. If someone has played on that position for a year then he has secured that spot. Good feeling about securing the number 4 spot.

I don't think you've ever done enough to guarantee a spot at the Euros.

But I like some chaos on the sets which brings in spontaneity both in the cast and the crew. If the actor knows his or her spot, where the light comes from and what lines to say, it's a rehearsed performance.

I can block, I can catch and I can run. It's about being in the right spot at the right time.

Sometimes when you're in the game, things speed up a little bit, which can make you miss your spot by a couple of inches.

Someone at an airport in Germany asked me to sing Wherever I Lay My Hat. It's strange, they wouldn't ask people in other professions to perform on the spot.

After a gig, even if I'm on tour and it's 3 A.M., I'll get in the shower and scrub my face, otherwise I'll have a spot the next day.

I'm a dancer and when I walk off stage there isn't a dry spot on me. This means my hair has to be put up again between shows. I have to make up and dress all over again.

I think guys are burning the business out by doing all this high impact stuff because once you use it as just a high spot, that's all it will ever be afterwards.

It's good to see somebody step up and perform in a tough spot.