Quotes About Performance

Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.

The Apollo Theatre was a difficult audience, and if they didn't like you, they would let you know. Luckily, they liked me.

Luckily, the films I did in Kannada were successful.

I've done plays where you get into the run and can go to auditions during the day, or can have lunch with someone, and then you go to half-hour and show up.

In season, and on game days, you are so used to shoot-around, going back home to eat lunch and sleep and then coming back to the arena for the game. Or you come and practice and then you rest.

I like movies. Movies have afforded me a modicum of luxuries. The thing about the movies is, if you're bad in a movie, you're bad forever.

Acting is a great luxury, a joy, and a pleasure.

Athletics is a luxury.

In one-day internationals, the batsman is under pressure to get on with run-scoring and does not have the luxury of leaving too many deliveries.

Of course, it's a huge luxury having LeBron on our team. At the same time, we have to be ready to play and we have to do our job.

I was good at two things, athletics and lying.

I would be lying if I say I don't find it scary each time I come on stage.

I'm not keeping track, but I've got six goals and seven assists! Of course you keep track of it. If anyone says they don't, they're lying!

I was an usher at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. You had to watch whatever play they had on 40 times.

For me, whenever I choose a song to sing, it's about the lyric first.

Most times, lyrics are the last thing I listen to, being a musician.

I changed the lyrics of 'All I Need Is the Girl' to 'All I Need Is the Job' for an audition years ago. It's a great ice-breaker - people want to laugh.

Being able to play all over the world to different audiences and have them sing my lyrics back to me, even if they can't speak the same language, is crazy.

Before every performance, you need at least half an hour to focus on what you are about to do: the walk-on and walk-off, the lyrics, how you are going to sing it - like, the original or bring your own personal flavour to it - how are you going to make it the best.

When you write really good lyrics - and sometimes I did! - they are just a joy to sing.

When you play a show and you see people singing your lyrics back to, you feel as if they do know you.

I did 'Macbeth' in elementary school, but I was never in theater or anything like that.

'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.

Machines can break down under pressure. But so can humans.