Quotes About Performance

I like playing in the later stages of games because there is more space when everybody's legs are tired.

Everyone becomes a lot more focused when you come towards the critical stages of the season.

As a competitor, I always have to test myself on the biggest stages and against the best there is to offer.

All the players want to play on the big stages - and I am no exception.

I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

Staging any play is very exposing because, if you are going to do it well, you have to put so much of yourself into it.

If you're going to sing on stage, wear lip stain.

The first stage I preformed on were the stairs to the hallway in the living room. There was a really nice platform, and when people were sitting in the living room, it was kind of an elevated platform and we would put on shows and skits.

I frequently find after a rehearsal of a performance that I have more breath, and can walk better and climb stairs better than I could before. It's as if I've expanded my lungs doing it. Basically speaking, conducting is quite a healthy profession.

So many times I've gone flying. I've fallen in audience members' laps, I've fallen down the stairs, I've had a shoe fall off live.

My show mode is that the dressing room is like going into the cockpit. Going down the stairs is like going on the runway, and once we begin performing, it's flight time. I'm just floatin' on that stage.

When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.

Connie Bennett, the guys used to stake her, she was so good.

Oftentimes, I feel like the clock is on, and there's money at stake, and you gotta get up there and dance for grandma, and it better be great, and you better get it right.

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in the music. In jazz, everyone's improvising, and everyone's creating at the same time.

You don't have time to think about things that aren't as important as football and the points that are at stake in the games that we have to win and do well in.

I contribute in many different ways to the team. I've played a hell of a lot of games in my career, and you can stake any argument on the stats.

I'm still fighting really hard to get any role I get. If it's comedy, I go for the laughs. And if it's drama, I try to tell the truth, and try to play the real stakes of whatever scenario the character's in.

I loved musicals because I felt like breaking out in song makes so much sense to me because it's the stakes of how you feel inside!

Thing is, I'm a funny actor, but I'm not good at being funny. I'm going to ramble for a second: I'm an actor who can make things funny in the moment, like in stakes or in circumstances or out of character.

'High Stakes' was a very bad movie that I was cast in as a lead.

People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.

Sledging makes things interesting. There are no robots playing. They are humans who want to perform well for the country. So when stakes are so high, emotions will take over. Sometimes sledging gets the best out of you.