Quotes About Performance

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

It is a law of nature that everybody plays a hole badly when playing through.

Tonight I am going to defecate on stage because I think that is the only way to express the nature of my soul according to rock and roll.

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

There's a quote from Hamlet that is my guide... He tells the players not to exaggerate but to hold a mirror up to nature. Don't overdo it, don't underdo it. Do it just on the line.

I just play the game. I hit a shot and wait for the next guy to hit his. I don't think between shots-that's my nature.

That's the nature of sport, if you look at how Europe has performed they have found a way to win but golf is cyclical and there's not much between the teams.

On the stage one must not confuse the nature of a personality with the naturalness of a person.

We are not of what we feel or believe to do, we are of what we do or fail to do.

I had been performing since I was 5, so it wasn't like I hadn't been on a stage before. I was always older than my age. That's my nature. I've always been a kind of mature kid.

she was such a bad actress. she never said her lines rite, it was something perverse in her nature. and wat was her line anyway?

We reveal something of our nature when we sing, something that can be disguised in our speaking voice.

The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.

You are only as beautiful as your last action ...

Those who cannot dance, should not dance.

Accuse not Nature she hath done her part Do thou but thine!

I love to talk about sports. I love sports it's just something that's in my nature.

Measuring Safety Performance by the number of injuries you have is like measuring parenting by the number of smacks you give

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.