Quotes About Performance

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.

Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

One of the most precious parts of acting is the work before you show up on the set, the time you spend being with your character before you bring that character to life. To me, that's the most rewarding part of it all. It feels very good to show up on a set just knowing that's with you.

The more everything gets digitalised, the more precious the live experience of going to the theatre is.

How precise you need to be when you're in a comedy, and the honesty you need and to have those two things meet up and have the execution just right, I always found very difficult.

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.

There are so many challenges and different parts to the job of singing. When you're in the studio, you have to be really, really, precise. You've got to keep everything clean and nice because that's going to be something that's down forever. And then you go onstage, and it's much more in the moment.

I try to be precise with my passes but take some risks as well.

The more precisely I can drive, the more I enjoy myself.

It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely.

Once you recognize that all documentaries are performance, it's not a matter of 'if' they should be performance. They are performance, and they are performance precisely where people are playing themselves.

People come to the theatre in search of a real encounter with other human beings, and we must give them what they come for. Our capacity to do that is the measure of being human. And if the price is that we sometimes say something not very pleasant - well, that's precisely why people want us, in the end: because we speak the truth.

I go for actors who do precisely what is expected of them.

I do not know if we play the most beautiful or attractive football, but we certainly play more intelligently, more functionally and more precisely than anyone else.

With Mtn Dew Game Fuel, I'm flying off buildings and hitting 360 snipes with more precision than ever.

Dance must have a precision without fault.

I'm working on my final ball, my precision in front of goal, my one-on-one attacking ability, just new ways to beat defenders and help my team.

'Chicago' is all about precision.

All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.

Even if we don't play fantastically, with good passing and precision and finesse, the most important thing is to win.

The Fender Precision is my instrument, my beloved Precisions.

If you want to play at Arsenal you need to be top, top, you need precision.

I've always performed. From the time that I was little, I was pretty precocious and always gravitated toward performing arts. But I was scared at first, deciding to do it for a living. So, initially, I majored in journalism, and I was pretty miserable.