Quotes About Performance

To portray a singer who gets on stage at night, who is away from the limelight, is never an easy task.

Your primary job is to be a football player, and you've got to accomplish that task before you go out and do anything else, really.

One thing was crystal clear to me: if you're centre-back, you first of all have to perform your task.

Being an actor, your focus is just on your craft and how to make it better, but production is a much bigger task - putting everything together.

Playing a character is like compressing an entire life into a few lines - that isn't an easy task.

One of the most important tasks as a leader in a startup is to pick the right metric to track. This is often referred to as the 'compass metric' because it will be your compass for growth. It's important to note that 'compass metrics' will likely change over the lifetime of a business.

Chewing gum actually lowers your cortisol levels, the hormone responsible for stress. But chewing gum doesn't just reduce stress, it also makes you more alert and improves your performance in memory-oriented tasks. It does so by increasing the blood flow to your brain and alerting your senses.

Irrespective of the tasks given to me, I have done my best to discharge my duties.

Ask any athlete: We all hurt at times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks. To ask it not to ache would be too much.

Most federal employees perform their tasks honorably and well.

I just miss the heartbeat of the band and crew. Watching everyone have their individualized tasks, and it all coming together to accomplish something huge every single night. Of course, seeing the kids and having songs that you wrote some back to you and yeah, just getting to do it all.

Theater is structured. You're plugged into a system. It's relentless. You're expected to do certain things every day. You have your tasks.

You need always to balance your tasks at the racetrack and at the factory. Still the factory is important where we are developing the car, preparing the cars.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

The thing is I'm very interested in bad taste, as anyone who's ever seen me perform or had dinner with me would know.

You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it's the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want to do anything without comedy.

DJing is like a great tasteful art form.

Progressive metal is one of the hardest styles of music to pull off live, especially while providing a tasteful show.

Everyone has their own tastes. Some people want to feel like it's Queen onstage, including the dress-up thing, but that's not my style. I do know some people love that and wish I would do it, but I have no interest in that.

I'm a tearless clown. If I were to get a tattoo, it would be the two masks, and they would be both smiling.

I've always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.

It was the Marines who taught me how to act. After that, pretending to be rough wasn't so hard.

In college and high school, you're always taught to hit the ball on the ground and on a line.

When eventually I started to act a bit more, I realised that circus school had taught me something that a lot of actors my age didn't have: physicality. They didn't know how to move. Acting is not all about talking. There is something animalistic about it.