Quotes About Performance

Football at it's best is a game of beauty and intelligence.

Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.

It takes a surprisingly large amount of intelligence to be a professional idiot.

I like actors. I like their insecurities, their humor and their intelligence.

I want only dead actors. That way there'll be no jealousy.

If in an actor there appears an utter vacancy of meaning, a frigid equality, a stupid languor, a torpid apathy, the greatest kindness that can be shown him is a speedy sentence of expulsion.

Beating drums while doing a kindness to someone is a very ugly show of ego!

Real-life people are often the hardest to play, people that you recreate who have actually lived, because you have to live up to people's knowledge of those characters.

2) Get a good night sleep before the test.

Winning or losing can be attributed to one of four factors: ability, effort

An effective way to determine the Ultimate Results messages is to answer the following questions: If you were to be hired today, what specific performance standards will you be measured on at your first annual review—a year from now? You get paid for producing results, so what results will you produce that will indicate to a company that you are the best candidate for the job? When you answer these questions, you'll have your Ultimate Results messages.

famous peak performance coach, used a version of it to propel the Los Angeles Kings hockey team to a stunning

People still love a well-delivered talk; the top professional speakers charge more per person than a Bruce Springsteen concert.

Your preoccupation should be on doing what you do as well as you can. What your co-workers say about you, what your opponent is doing -- that doesn't matter.

I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!

The avant-garde no longer simply attempts, as it always must, to carry out transformations within an inherited medium; it claims it is creating a medium of its own, sometimes retaining the old name of theatre, sometimes preferring others: spectacle, show, performance.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

Listen to that--just listen to that. It puffs, it pants, it wheezes, it yanks its damn carcass up step by step--who'd ever believe that on stage it's a young girl.

My wife was an opera singer, you know. She bellowed her way through Wagner as a Valkyrie. I married her and made her give up the theatre, to my eternal cost. She was to go on acting for myself alone. A performance at his own expense, lasting for more than twenty years, tends to wear out your spectator.

My part is not a heroic one, but I shall play my part.

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.

what the play is about Supertask Break the play down into its component parts Bits Decide what each actor has to do in each of the component parts, what does he want or need Tasks Decide on what he does to fulfil that need Actions Check whether the sequence of needs and actions is logical and coherent and

Amar los toros es, cada tarde, eso de las cinco, creer en los Reyes Magos e ir a su encuentro

There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.