Quotes About Performance

The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

Champions do consistently what others do sporadically.

Life is meant to be lived in 'the zone', not the stands.

Principles are proven through performance.

The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the audience and to select from what happens during the day which movement shall be a disaster and which a gala night. His job is to preside over accidents.

The laws and the stage, both are a form of exhibitionism.

Roosevelt used to say, "You and I are the two best actors in America.

All great writers are actors, even merely competent ones are. They have the actor's capacity for getting inside the skins of their leading characters and transfiguring them- whatever they may be, even murderers- with what they can give of themselves. They do that quite as much as actors do.

Before anyone realized it, I had become an accomplished clown

This was how I happened to invent my clowning.

her halde, bir ?eyden emin olunabilir:?nsan, ya?amak için rol yapmak zorunda.

Leading a high-performance team can be both challenging and rewarding.

There is a growing consensus in the investment world that climate change presents a group of risks that will, if unmitigated, have a profound impact on economic performance and financial returns.

An epigram is a gag that's played Carnegie Hall.

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.

[On Leadville:] Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

Paul was like a musician who gives no thought to audience approval, if he can only catch a look of approval from his Conductor.

he could command an audience, set his box upright on its pole, opened its case, and began to play, bidding me dance to the music. The puppets never tired, of course; and I suppose he thought I was like them.

I don't remember where we first played 'Black Sabbath' , but I can sure as hell remember the audience's reaction: all the girls ran out of the venue, screaming.

If you don't have a sense of humour when you're in a band, you end up like f**king Emerson, Lake and Palmer, making eight-disc LPs so you can all have your own three-hour f**king solos. And who wants to listen to that bollocks?

My last good memory of the eighties, before everything went dark, was being sent to Wormwood Scrubs. Not because I'd broken the law again – amazingly – but because I was asked to play a gig there.