Quotes About Performance

Always when you play badly or commit errors, you hope to play another game to put it behind you, to show that you are capable and that you deserve to be playing for an important team like City.

Football is a game of errors. You want to make your rivals commit them and to avoid them yourself.

Theater, because of the commitment, it has to be a great role and a great play to me. It takes a lot out of you.

As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.

Some artists don't want to be involved in anything outside the performing. They'll say, 'You make the decisions and tell me what to do.' I want to be in on all of it. If there's a meeting where commitments are made that I have to carry out, I want to be there.

I've never committed to a role without a script.

You're always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you're performing a play. The job is getting yourself out of the way and letting the character go about the scenes.

Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote.

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.

When I sing, I try to communicate certain emotions, and that's the voice that comes out.

If two actors can communicate well during a scene, it works and makes for good chemistry.

As artists, our job is to communicate thoughts and tell stories.

Albums are a journey, and I even find that as a DJ, with less than two hours, I can barely communicate anything. So I like to play long sets.

That's the most important quality for any actor, for us: someone who can communicate what they're feeling without saying, 'This is how I feel... ' It's what's on their face.

During 'Torches,' I was more concerned with communicating the spirit of the song than the actual lyrics.

Communicating and being loud is a big part of my game.

Scientology helps me in acting to focus on communication.

An approachable and authentic CEO is essential to fostering a high-performance, open communications culture.

I don't compare 'em, I just catch 'em.

Doing comedy and romance is easy, if I compare it with playing the role of a real-life person.

Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

'Saturday Night Live' is live television. Nothing can compare to that.

All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.