Quotes About Performance

People don't know and they shouldn't know that you work incredibly hard as an actor.

If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker.

It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?

You can never control how people respond to your work. You can only control your own work ethic.

For as long as I can remember, the thing that gave me a sense of wonderment and renewal... has always been the work of other actors.

If everything works out for me & if it's my special day I'll try to break AB de Villiers record for the fastest hundred.

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.

An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it.

Statistics are for losers.

The system that people work in and the interaction with people may account for 90 or 95 percent of performance.

Once you put in all the work pre-practice and post-practice and see it in a game and see it in play, that's a great feeling.

It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

'Speed' and 'Point Break' were a lot of running and jumping, and then 'The Matrix Trilogy' had a lot of fights and wire work and green screen elements.

The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.

The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

I think it's very hard for coaches to work with me. They'll no doubt have a good CV afterwards, but at the same time they're under a lot of pressure.

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.

Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.

Thank God we are not to be judged by the opinions of our fellows, but by the work that we do.

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.