Quotes About Performance

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.

There is a fear of emotion in tennis.

It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.

Performance capture is a technology, not a genre it's just another way of recording an actor's performance.

When the point person in an organization strives for balance, he potentially robs other leaders of an opportunity to perform at the top of their game.

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?

Despair is the constant companion of the clown.

Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they're only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally isn't it? Everything else is artful.

I think Gina Rowlands is an amazing actress.

Men can only perform like men, mama always says, when women are doing everything. We're invisible little workers so they can puff out their chests.

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

She loved her parents – of course she did – but when they were with her, she had to put on a show.

I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns.

I liked Westerns for two reasons: First, it took the actor outside. They were all very physical at that time and not limited to a stage. Second, they paid my rent an awful lot.

I am one of the best to have raced in F1. I am probably not fastest in qualifying, or the wet, but I am 9.5 in all areas. I try to benefit from that.

Practicing with the wet ball is the key to get in the best shape for fielding when there is dew.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. I like the good life too much; I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.

The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.

I didn't like the way a wet cotton T-shirt felt under my equipment. There had to be something better.

It was kind of good to get my feet wet with my first NBA game. I felt comfortable out there, let the game come to me. I played within myself and I thought I did pretty good.

Who would people rather see, a real hitter hitting home runs or a pitcher swinging a wet newspaper?