Quotes About Performance

You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

It's very important to be able to distinguish the actors from the characters they play.

If you pinpointed someone before the kick-off, probably you would become embroiled in a fight, and you would be distracted from what really matters and not play well.

Olympics is a place where you can be easily distracted to a lot of things and it will seem like a magic world.

Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself.

You're playing a character in a drama who happens to be based on someone who existed. It's never going to 'be' that person, but it's based on someone well-known, and you want to create enough of that person for it not to be a distraction.

Sport instils discipline, and it's a distraction.

I need distractions. Good distractions, not bad ones. A good distraction for me is a great play.

For some reason, the busier I am at the track, the better I tend to race. I think it's because I don't have to deal with all the distractions outside the car that can get me in trouble at times.

I feel attention sometimes in games, from fans and other players. But I just try to play the way I always have, remain focused, and don't let distractions get in my way.

In international sport you get distractions all the time, but at the end of the day that shouldn't affect how you deliver a ball or how you hit a ball.

Too often in business, only financial data is gathered - and then it is distributed only to management. Other key indicators that relate to performance areas also need to be tracked. Information on performance has to be made available to those people who can best use it - those doing the work.

Definitely my strength is distribution and I like to bring that every time I play.

We've put out records that consistently have been what the fans have been looking for from Disturbed. We've been consistent with our live performances. As long as we continue to maintain that level of trust with our fanbase, I think they'll still be there.

You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'

You don't want to go and make something, then go out and do shows, if you're not really into it. You don't want to go out there and make people feel like you're grudging playing them a song. That's a disturbing thought.

I'm such a diva on set.

I'm too busy putting my energies into my performance to be a diva.

I think we can all be divas, but as an actress, you can't only be the diva; that would be boring. But sometimes, perhaps, it's fun.

I'm a chanteuse and a diva, and I'm an actress who likes a script.

As a drag diva auditioning in Hollywood, I've run the gamut.

I don't want to be difficult personally. On stage is the right place for a diva.

Actors who say they can dive inside a character are either schizophrenic or lying.

When it's a bigger character, and there's a lot going on for her, and there are all these different elements that go into the character, I just love being able to dive into it.