Quotes About Performance

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

Backup singers just bring so much more life to the situation. When a voice opens up, there comes the life.That's when it's a person-to-person connection.

The better you putt, the bolder you play.

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

The important thing in life is not to have a good hand but to play it well.

I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.

I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.

The way you see your future determines your thinking today. You're thinking today determines your performance today. Your performance in the today of your life determines your future.

The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.

Not in his speech, not in his thoughts, I see his greatness, only in his actions, in his life.

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.

When I was nine, I played the demon king in "Cinderella" and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

Investment performance doesn't determine real-life returns; investor behavior does.

I stick to the script, I memorize the lines, cause life is movie that I've seen too many times.

(Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.

If someone ever asks you to do something for them, do it really bad so you never have to do it again.

An actor's job is to embrace emotions and situations that in real life we spend all of our time running away from.

When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.