Quotes About Performance

Audiences can get their politics elsewhere. They go to the theater to forget.

The Internet is the Viagra of big business.

The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.

I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.

I've choreographed all of my movies.

There's a formula to my films-people expect certain things out of a Jackie Chan film-but within those expectations, I want to give people a shock

Acting keeps me young! I love that the fans like this kind of action and as long as they want me I'll continue to do it.

I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.

One thing that does appear certain is that consuming less than 1.0 to 1.2 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight results in declines in both lean mass and endurance performance (Phinney et al., 2004).

I really feel that the talent I have is acting. Freedom and the possibility of play-that is what I like to have.

Helen Lawson: The only hit that comes out of a Helen Lawson show is Helen Lawson, and that's ME, baby, remember?

When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?

You cannot bullshit the stopwatch.

The moment a team member relaxes is the moment their opponent in the next garage or the next driver on the track is pushing harder.

Why do we refer to the mind as a circus? A circus is not a mess; a circus is a very coordinated activity deliberately made to look like a mess. On one level it is a mess, but on another, it is a highly coordinated activity.

You can't foster a relationship with someone who is always checking your performance to make sure it's adequate enough to merit his friendship.

CEOs are trained to assess business strategy, it's time to take a page from their book and train yourself to manage your own personal career strategy. A career that is left to manage itself will under-perform much like a company whose strategic direction is left to chance. And like a business there are some best practices to avoid. There is planning to be done, decisions to be made and evasive measures to execute in times of trouble.

It's a choice: Either you try to make it look easy or you emphasize how hard it is.

First, increase your water intake about an hour before the test, since water helps to fill up the veins, making them plumper and more easily accessible.

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.