Quotes About Performance

Being a comfortable public speaker, which involves easily being able to go off-script, strongly signals competence.

I strongly believe that'players have to express themselves to their full potential, they must be able to make choices during the game.

I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.

I see writing and acting as different parts of the same continuum. Writing is better for intense emotion. If you're very angry about something, you shouldn't present it as strongly when you're acting. But if you're really angry and writing about it, that's the best way to get it out and across.

I think what people respond to, and what they're responding to so strongly, is I'm very myself on stage. What you see in person is very much who I am on stage.

In theatre, previews are the first draft of a show. I strongly believe that. The only way we can truly tell whether that draft works is by having an audience present.

I strongly favour attractive football.

You need to start games strongly and finish them strongly.

It's a lot of feelings, I think, when people so strongly associate an actor with a character they play - but the main feeling is I feel very happy that I've been able to play somebody that people connect so strongly to.

The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish.

For me, as much fun as it is to watch wrestling is, actually wrestling is what struck a chord with me.

What's going on in the game today... it's data vs. art - that's what it comes down to for me. Art being the human heartbeat, data being numbers, the math, etc. I believe there's a balance to be struck right there.

I want to bring more structure into my shows sometimes but honestly, people have told me they like the randomness and how crazy it gets.

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

There are quite detailed rules with sitcom. When people can leave scenes, act structure, joke rhythm. You can't not have a straight man.

You have your structure, but within it, it gets fuller and you can highlight other parts of the performance.

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

When you are an actor every day kind of morphs into one as there is no set structure to my job.

My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.

What I like about Broadway is that you are still entertaining. You're standing in front of an audience every night and the critics are not friends at all - and that's good for me as an entertainer because I want to grow. It also gives me the structure of remaining in one city so I can get creative in different ways.

I think I'm a born athlete. My coaches have told me my muscles and body structure are perfect for skating.

You can't improvise without a skeletal structure; you can't just go in and start talking. This is a very misunderstood craft because no one else makes movies like this.

Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it.

The great thing about the stage is that you have a structured month-long rehearsal period where you're going in every day. You have to have lots of run-throughs with theater because there are no second takes in front of a live audience.