Quotes About Performance

The par putts sometimes are bigger than the birdie putts.

You know what's funny, I really hate Par 3's. I feel like you have to be perfect from jumpstreet. But on Par 5's, you can mess up a little bit, but you still have time to adjust before you get to the hole and still end up with a birdie or a par.

There was a great ensemble in 'The Great Fire,' and it was great not having the same parade of actors.

The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.

I left 'Death in Paradise' because I wanted to get back on stage.

Appearing in 'Death in Paradise' was my very first time acting in English.

Working on 'Death In Paradise' is very challenging, but it enables me to go further in my acting.

I'm excited about the idea of an act of theatre triggering a parallel creative act of writing.

There are just so many parallels between sport and business.

Acting is like golf: analysis leads to paralysis.

Education has rules and parameters. Women outperform men when the parameters are clear.

It's challenging to play a real-life character because you know that it existed in the history and you have certain parameters to follow and stay within.

I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.

I had heard a live show, where my voice didn't sound the way I wanted to hear it and I got paranoid. I'm not an amazing singer, I just belt it out in this crappy old way, but for a while I had it in my head that I couldn't sing.

I think, for any actor, dealing with the paranormal is intriguing.

There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better.

'Parenthood' has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.

We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.

This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play.

One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the first time that electronic music was played at the opera. I really like the relationship between the music and the choreography.

Jay Z doesn't care if he plays in Paris or Denver, but we do. We make more money in Paris.

I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

I've always had that mindset of, 'OK, I may be hot this month or doing really well this month, but don't get too high, don't get too low - just enjoy it.' Don't ride the rollercoaster, basically. I always thought about it like, I'm not going to an amusement park, I'm going to a baseball field.

What are we out at the park for, except to win?