Quotes About Performance

You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's not what you do; it's what you get done.

It's hard work to make a four-minute program look effortless and elegant.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.

We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.

You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.

If you are not prepared, you cannot work out intensely. If you do not perform, you cannot get results, and if you can't do your best to recover, you won't get the benefits of your hard work.

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.

I often think that presentations are more difficult than the work itself.

I feel I have a responsibility to myself, a responsibility to explain where we're coming from. Because a song or the performance of a song is a lot like a work of art.

I'm a performer. I push the envelope, I work in a very uncontrolled manner onstage. I do a lot of free association, it's spontaneous, I go into character.

Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience.

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

Nobody goes to work to do a bad job.

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform.

What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan.

I never practice; I always play.

Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.

It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.

Do some work in the theater if you can. It is the best training you can get.

Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.