Quotes About Performance

Sometimes the stage terrifies me, " I confessed. "But being here alone like this, it's freeing."Solitude can be freeing, " he said.

Significance is not determined by the amount of time on stage but by what you do with the time you get.

I'm so out of shape I take steroids just to watch sports.

I don´t complain about playing time. My job is to do so well the coach can´t sit me.

Whatever you do is your deed.

A great quality of your preparation will manifest on your performance.

Your Presentation is you Capability

Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is.

Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.

Expectation levels set can be directly correlated to the quality of the training provided.

I believe in the 20/80 rule. That's where working an extra 20% faster, harder, or smarter gets you an extra 80% of the rewards.

I love sports and I love sports movies.

at least in IBM's case, when it honored and nurtured its sales force and its sales culture, it was productive and successful. That statement may sound incredibly obvious. When their values prevailed, IBM did well. But beginning shortly after the new millennium, they did not always prevail. IBM, like many other corporations, in recent years has relied increasingly on what came to be known as "financial engineering" to improve performance. It was never enough to ensure success.

Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.

There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

Although in principle both women believed in love, neither of them believed in romance. It was all a performance for them, what women had to do for men, what men had to do for women—it was a manner of assessing each other's value. Cora had taken an economics class in college and was fairly certain her vagina was a capitalist tool.

This is not a date; this is an audition for a play about a terrible date.

I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies they're so beautiful to look at. It's such a shame we don't make them anymore. Although, I don't know how you could make tap dancing current and topical.

It's amazing the hours you pull when you're the lead of a show.

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

King Crimson were the only really famous band I'd been in.

I spent well over a year on the road with Sarah Vaughn. That was amazing.