Quotes About Performance

Talent is not enough - it's about using it in the right way.

We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp.

I'm good at penalties, either using power or technique when I'm shooting.

Lesley Manville comes at 'funny' from a totally different direction in 'Phantom Thread,' using snootiness and froideur. The effect of her performance - as the difficult manager of her difficult brother's couture dress business - stems in part from the chill she puts into her line readings.

Mastering a few simple techniques helped me to improve my technique massively using equipment like the pull buoy and central snorkel to isolate certain parts of the body. I was then able to swim for longer, faster and improve my fitness dramatically.

A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have never held a bat in baseball films.

I can watch movies that I've been in, and if there's an emotional scene, I remember specifically what I was using, what I was thinking about, because I am very specific in how I work.

As an actor, you want to keep your demons to some extent, but you also have to exorcise them so you can use them instead of them using you.

I've been using slide guitar, banjo, stuff like that for yonks. But if people haven't seen me live on stage, they wouldn't have heard me with these instruments.

It's about how you're using the space. That's what makes live music.

We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet.

Frank liked me because I went nuts on the piano using feet, head, whatever I could find to bang on the piano.

There are moments when the Chasers drop clangers. It's not that the questions are harder than usual, but it's the pressure and speed.

I've performed in Japan before, as well as many other non-English speaking countries. I find you really just have to be a bit more animated than usual. Call-and-response routines work well, if they are simple. Otherwise, I just dance around like a circus monkey and hope the crowd feels it.

I think all actors have a strange quirk about them. They're different than the usual run of people. They have a way of dramatizing things.

My usual route is, I do a play at South Coast Rep, then there's time between and I revise it, and then I take it to New York.

The usual practice just isn't enough. I want more edge over my opponents. Cross-training is so important. I can improve myself and have a lower impact on my body.

Players that have had less minutes on the pitch compared to the usual starting XI will naturally concede more chances.

I am not a usual coach: it doesn't matter for me who are scoring the goals.

If you want to avoid the usual fate in politics of failure, you need to understand some basic principles about why people make mistakes and how some people, institutions, and systems cope with mistakes and thereby perform much better than most.

I was a player for 20 years. When there was something bothering me, I couldn't perform to my usual standard. When your wife is annoying you, for instance, it's not easy to do your best work, is it?

One of the things I love about stage makeup is I get to play up my eyes even more than usual.

In music, you ain't really got to be able to sing. In comedy, you may be cute, you may be able to add a little extra to your routine, but if you're not funny, no one's really rocking with you - and if you're a black woman, you better be hilarious. As usual, we always have to do the most.

I want to be playing, I want to have a chance to compete for my position in the team, and I want to be useful for the team and do the usual stuff on the pitch week in, week out.