Quotes About Performance

I tend to - every time I step onto the set until the time I go back to the hotel, I just try to be in character all the time.

You have to really have the will to hang onto the first note as it is being played, and then really stay with it and take the flight, as it were, you know, for the duration of the piece.

Normally, learning lines is fairly easy for me, but when you add an accent onto that, it adds a complexity that I had not anticipated.

Having my dad play for the Falcons, what it did was really to expose me to a whole bunch of other elite-level athletes, which I think gives me an advantage and allowed me to understand what goes into sports. It is more than going out onto the field and going out onto the ice and competing.

I loved music before I stumbled onto acting.

When we walk onto that stage I'm not feeling like I'm ruled by any other band.

I just control what I can control. Getting better every time I step onto the floor.

The main thing going through my head when I step out onto any show is: 'Don't mess it up, Emma, don't mess it up.'

At Juve you always have to go onto the field ready to give your best.

I was a stage-struck child from about 5 years onward.

I feel the dams of emotions open up more easily when one is acting.

I feel like my life is pretty much on display. So much of it is working, and that's really all I want to do. I'm an open book.

If you play well, you can open doors.

I think people in theater are pretty open-minded and objective about the talent and what they can bring to the story they want to tell.

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.

I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.

One of my first big shows, I opened up for Chris Brown; I was about 10 years old, and Chris Brown was just big; he still is one of my idols now.

Every international meeting or championship I do, I can cope a lot better because I can say I did the 100 m. hurdles, opened up the athletics at an Olympic Games in front of a home crowd, 80,000 people.

My plant-based diet has opened up more doors to being an athlete. It's a whole other level that I'm elevating to.

I've opened throughout most of my career at Worcester. I understand there are guys in the team who have opened for a long time, more than me, with better records than me.

Hillbilly Rock' was the song that opened the door and gave me a reason to get a bus and a band and cowboy clothes to go out there and figure it out in front of everybody. And the hits started coming.

When I started out playing live, it was different. I felt good about it. Nobody knew who I was. I just opened for so-and-so. Now, I'm playing to people who are coming out to see the band. There's too much attention on the band and me.

No one in my family plays music. But since I was very little, I would go around the house singing and dancing. And when I was 8, my parents asked me to get up and sing something at a family meal. I had my eyes closed, singing - la la la la la - and when I opened them, the whole family was crying.

Star power opened 'Mission Mangal.'