Quotes About Performance

I really enjoy 'festival life,' as it were, and I love the reactions when I bring out my guitar on stage. The crowd are always a bit like, 'What the hell is this urban guy doing with a guitar,' and that's what I love - the shock element of it all!

In San Diego, I saw Keith Urban perform, and I've seen a lot of acts, and he's better than anybody I've seen.

I have a track record of getting things done as secretary of Housing and Urban Development.

I used to do a lot of plays in English, Hindi, and Urdu. I wanted to be an actor since I was three and a half.

I was 17 when I first acted on stage. I was a part of an Urdu adaptation of 'Spartacus' in the titular role.

I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.

The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.

Don't join an easy crowd; you won't grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.

Productivity and efficiency can be achieved only step by step with sustained hard work, relentless attention to details and insistence on the highest standards of quality and performance.

If you train badly, you play badly. If you work like a beast in training, you play the same way.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

A lot of guys have better genes but if you work hard and consistently, you can outperform them.

Of course, if you have thought up to now that an actor relies merely on inspiration you will have to change your mind. Talent without work is nothing more than raw unfinished material.

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time.

The only place that work and motion are the same thing is the zoo where people pay to see the animals move around

The work of rehearsal is looking for meaning and then making it meaningful.

The worse you're performing, the more you must work mentally and emotionally. The greatest and toughest art in golf is "playing badly well." All the true greats have been masters at it.

When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.

Looks like you've been missing a lot of work lately.

There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work.

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.

Don't ask what the work is. Rather, see what the work does.

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.

I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts.