Quotes About Performance

Playing for England is always the main priority.

My priority has always been to do the best possible job in whatever role I'm in.

For my family, for my loved ones, my priority is to have a job and perform.

I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.

I think the most privacy I had was when the game was going on.

As much as we're out here performing, I think it's necessary that we have our times of privacy as well when things aren't going our way.

In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private.

Acting is actually private.

I will not speak about my private life, but I am a professional, and I will always give my best.

In Italy, so long as you are not criminal, they couldn't care less about your private life. It's when you lose a football match that they criticise you - a lot.

What the actor is in private life, he is to a large extent on the stage, because he cannot conceal himself and his true personality from his audience.

In my work, I want to convince people that I'm that character. If they know everything about Lesley Manville - private life, all of that stuff - it doesn't help. So the kind of anonymity I enjoy is key.

My job as an actor is for you, so why should my private life be for you, too? That's not fair.

Fans don't care what's in your private life, what happened in your past, where you come from. If you don't perform, they judge.

I am not necessarily a private person, but I am Charlotte Flair on camera, and that is playing a character.

I'm such a private person, and sexuality is such a private thing. A sex scene is much harder than a fight scene. It's one thing to say, 'Kick higher,' but 'Kiss harder' - that's just crazy.

I'm a very private person, and when I leave the stage, I leave the stage.

I always did music privately as a hobby, I think partly because I was nervous to do it in front of other people.

The pressure to perform is actually a privilege. Being left out of the starting rotation is a sign you must work harder.

Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

Having pressure is a privilege.

I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.