Quotes About Performance

Acting is a subtle combination of hiding and revealing yourself, and as I'm not an extrovert, this is painful for me.

Wrestling is difficult - it is not just about doing moves and running around, and creating high spots. It's so much more subtle than that.

You can't instruct an audience to laugh, but what you can do is read well and understand the spirit and subtleties, if there are any, in the dialogue.

When you're doing lots and lots of episodes and you're playing the same character, it's great because you really get to know the character and it becomes a really fast style and you find subtleties in it.

When you read something in script form, there are some subtleties that stand out with far greater gravitas than sometimes what you see on screen.

When I started doing arenas, because of the screens, I was back to getting the reaction of a very small room. If I say something and raise my eyebrow, everyone sees it. So people were laughing at the subtleties that they weren't getting in the theatres. It was really strange.

Dad was pretty solid. He had great grooves and there was occasional moments of sheer brilliance with fills and things, but in general, the sheer brilliance is the simplicity, how much groove, how much feel he had, all the subtleties that we miss.

To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.

There's always the joy of the performance and fine-tuning new interpretations. Over the years, we've all grown as musicians, so obviously there is a lot of subtlety that wasn't there in the first place.

When you're in seeing someone like Ellen Page, and you're right then, it's just the two of you. You're locked in. There's this incredible subtlety and control of the actor who's sitting across from you that you're really required to step up your game.

Pantomime is a big thing in the cultural calendar of my country, you know. So subtlety's not my forte.

There's definitely no subtlety in what I do. When you want to get your face melted, you come to a Grace Potter and the Nocturnals concert.

I expected to be doing basement theater in the suburbs of Stockholm.

I once did a gig at an office Christmas party in the showroom floor of a friend's father's home appliance shop in the suburbs of Melbourne. It was to a much older crowd. Without a microphone. Or a stage. With the queue for the buffet behind me.

When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'

I've been driving in the city for years because, as a stand-up in N.Y.C., you can perform at more comedy clubs a night if you have a car. Getting from club to club by subway is too slow at night and too expensive by cab. So, many comics live far out from Manhattan and drive in every night.

If you're walking through the Union Square subway station - New Yorkers know it's obnoxious and crowded, and in the summer it's too hot - there are always amazing musicians playing, and sometimes there are multiple, different musicians set up in there.

Whether the work that I do shall succeed or achieve critical acclaim is for the audience to decide.

You need 100 percent concentration on golf to succeed.

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.

I think every time you step on the field you have a certain amount of pressure on you to succeed.

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

I don't think golf has ever been any pressure as far as having to succeed.