Quotes About Performance

More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.

I listen to music before my competitions to get me pumped up. It helps me stay focused.

Sometimes people can get lost within the crowd, but we have to remember that ballroom dancing is an intimate sport where people look into your story and not the other way around. It's so important to just stay focused as a couple and that you don't let your adrenaline get the best of you by dancing too fast to the music or whatever.

Every time I play darts I try to keep my poker face on and stay focused until that last dart has gone in.

I don't really try to take notice of all the media. I just try to stay focused on my game.

On the pitch, I need to stay focused, alert, and be ready to face my heart-racing moment with confidence.

It's tough to stay focused and be able to separate life from our job. We are paid to perform, and we are performers. You gotta have good brothers to lean on.

I exercise to stay strong, healthy, and stage-ready. I never prepare for a red carpet - I just go with the flow.

I dub only four hours a day for a Tamil film because my voice doesn't stay strong for long hours.

If I don't stay true to my character, I would fail as an actor.

I know there are actors who won't kiss on screen, and I respect that, but I don't have any rules like that. I will stay true to the script.

Whether you are a stay-at-home mum, or on the red carpet, or in Afghanistan, the better you feel, the better you do your job.

I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.

I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, 'Who's that?' But this got me started in acting.

To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

I would have liked it to have stayed serious and have the adventures of a family lost in space. This isn't to take anything away from Jonathan and the Robot. I watch his performance today and he still makes me laugh.

I had to change the shape of my own voice. It was quite hard to pull off and so once I had it, I stayed in Hitchcock's voice all day on set.

Way before we got a record deal, we were playing clubs seven nights a week, three one-hour sets a night. Then we got the record deal, and we took off on the road and stayed out.

When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.

I started performing with the Boston Children's Opera when I was 5, and I stayed working with that group until I was about 12 or 13, so that was a huge part of my life. It was, weirdly, an extremely professional environment geared towards kids.

I'm a very explosive player and need everything to be right. I started working with an osteopath the last year I was in Madrid and have stayed with him.

I try to take the approach that everyone really is an athlete at some level. I mean, we were all on the playground in the beginning. Some of us just stayed there.

English football is very different, and I had to adapt to it much more than I would have had if I had stayed in the Russian league. But after a season, I felt a lot better, a lot fitter.

Had I stayed in England, I would have had to take at least a few acting jobs just for the money.