Quotes About Performance

I've listened to musicians who say that using a metronone makes you robotic, that it decreases your 'feel.' That's ridiculous. Either you have feel or you don't. Feel is one of those intangibles that can't be taught. But if you do have feel, using a metronome will allow you to play cleaner - and that'll make your 'feel' have more, well, 'feeling.'

You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.

If the audience likes your work, if they like you, they don't think whether you are married or have children or not. I made that quite clear.

I didn't know I wanted to go into entertainment, but I knew I wanted to be on stage when I was about seven. I saw a play, like most kids do, at a children's theater in Cleveland, and I just saw them up there, and I thought, 'that's where I want to be.'

Women who are clever actresses have longevity because they're amazing actors, not because the camera loves them.

It's difficult to be clean and clever at the same time, but a lot of our stuff was.

I have watched Peppermint for years and I know how smart and clever and funny she can be with a lip-sync.

I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.

I know where I'm ranked, but I don't look at it that much, I don't study it that much. You really can't look at it that way, you've got to try to win as many matches as you can, and it's cliche, but you've got to take it one at a time.

I know it's cliche, but after the first show, I knew I liked singing, being on stage, making people happy. It just felt natural.

It is a cliche to say that you need to take 20 wickets to win a Test and it is the bowlers who get you the 20 wickets.

More than being a star, I want to be an actor. This may sound cliched but that is how it is.

No one has ever told me that I act badly. It is just that most of the films I did didn't click.

I've been on extremely talented teams that just don't click, and I've also been on team with a little bit less talent, but they clicked, and because they clicked, they did better than other talented teams I've been on.

When you're clicking, you're not making mental mistakes. You're going out there. You're lining up fast.

I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.

I am now bowling 135 clicks at times, and yeah, it's good.

I've never met a client who wants to be the worst.

At the end of the day, all I can do is continue to do a job for my client. That's it.

I measured my success by how many clients I had and how many billable hours I had.

Usually climax scenes have emotional or action scenes but Podaa Podi' has a climax with a dance performance.

An album is not like an hour-long DJ set, you know, hit after hit and then build up to one big climax.

I am working very hard at training to improve my efficiency, to be more clinical in front of goal.

I'm trying to make the box, trying to be more ruthless, more clinical, and trying to decide games.