Quotes About Performance

When people come and see me, I want them to experience joy. I don't do any sad songs in my show. It's to lift the spirit.

Frankly, I think I'm marvelous in rehearsal! Then you turn the camera on, and it gets stiff and tight. And then you trudge back to your trailer feeling sad. That's been my experience of film acting.

Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it's because you've started to think of failure.

The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.

Mediocrity results first and foremost from management failure, not technological failure.

In business, poor performance leads to bankruptcy or, at a minimum, a restructuring of the company. In American education, failure entitles the bankrupt system to even more taxpayer dollars.

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

Failure's hard. There's no way around. Bombing on stage never feels great. You feel judged, you feel alone. But then when your performance works, it's transcendent.

Both half success and half failure must be considered as a full failure!

There is always a half-malicious curiosity amongst actors to witness the shortcomings of a novice. They invariably experience strong inclinations to prophesy failure.

Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action.

All an actor has is their blind faith that they are who they say they are today, in any scene.

Worship doesn't happen when a guy gets on a stage w/ a guitar. It happens when faith-filled eyes behold the glory of Christ.

Diamanda Galás, the avant-weird performance artist... 'The devil's wife,' someone calls her. Faith No More loves Diamanda Galás.

Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying to the soul.

Don't you just hate when you think you did amazing on a test and then get a horrible grade...

One who is slow in making a promise is most faithful in the performance of it.

I think you chose the wrong career path. You should have gone into acting because you're so good at pretending to be something you're not.

It takes humility to ask a question about your performance. And even more humility to consider the answer.

That awkward moment when you can do something alone, but you can't in front of people!

Being nervous when talking in front of a lot of people. Sweaty hands, shakey voice, forgetting what your about to say.

I'm not afraid of being laughed off the stage, sometimes, I'm just afraid of not making it up to the stage. But I still believe I'll make it.

You complain about being played, well bi... do your job.