Quotes About Performance

I owe my family first, but I also have others around me that I have to perform for.

I've always believed that fighters owe the fans a show. I'm a fighter and my job is to beat the man in front of me, but, I want to do it in a way that is memorable to people.

I owe my entire to theatre. Simply because, I got so many chances to practice. Playing the same character for days, I could understand and practice on how to build that emotional arc.

What I've created comedically owes a lot to my ignorance of comedy and love of making theatre stuff.

If I get wickets owing to mistakes of batsmen, I am not satisfied from the inside.

One time, I had to do Edgar in 'King Lear' and Owl in 'Winnie the Pooh' on the same day.

When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.

It's called show business for a reason. The theater owners want to make money, and understandably so.

If you underperform for your owners, eventually they pick up their bat and ball and go home.

You always depend on what the owners think of the job you are doing.

While winning may not always personify the Big Apple, attitude certainly does. Players get called to the carpet. So do coaches, managers, executives, owners, and anyone associated with them. No one is safe.

I'll argue with the owners all day long when they do not allow the players to get the best.

The last thing a director needs is an actress who feels an ownership towards a particular character.

You need the actors to feel as much ownership of the performance and the direction of the story as you do to get the most out of everyone's potential. Part of it is just making sure we all have the same vision.

I guess, as an actor, you have to bring something personal to the character - you've got to identify and love one element of the character, or else you can't really inhabit and find ownership.

For narrative games, and also for the sake of the medium, we have to treat performance that way, as actors. You have to have a sense of ownership over it and believe that you're bringing something meaningful to it - because that's what all of the developers are doing, and that's what the story demands.

Nobody is going to tell me Marshawn Lynch can't run. He's strong as an ox.

I did gigs alongside Oxford students and I thought being working class I'd feel inferior. But the thing is you don't feel inferior if you're getting more laughs than the other bloke on the bill.

I love audiences. They are my oxygen. I only breathe with audience. When I'm alone, I am normally a miserable you-know-what.

Because of the pace of daytime, you don't necessarily have time to work every detail of your character, so you have to bring a lot of it yourself.

There's a pace in TV I like.

When I play, I like to use my pace and to link up with my team-mates.

I like to pace onstage.

Pace judgement is everything in the hour record. If you can ride 16.1 or 16.2-second laps constantly for 221 laps, and not go 15.9s or 16.4s, it's keeping it on the line every lap, lap after lap.