Quotes About Performance

Actors can become technically sound, but honesty always translates, even if you are not doing a lot of things on camera.

I played international football for England, and in many games, we were technically inferior to the opposition.

Technically your best player should be batting at No. 3.

I am quick and very good technically and like to entertain fans that come to the stadium.

But I love listening to my own songs and I know they're working well if I'm not thinking too much about them technically.

I hate technically constructed actors. In fact, I hate anything technically constructed, unless it's a bridge.

When you demand performance, players raise their game technically. But if you put all the emphasis on results, that brings their level down.

Lyrics mean a lot to me, and I won't record a song unless I can feel it. That's something I learned from Carter Stanley. Even when he wasn't perfect technically, he got inside a song and sold it emotionally.

I felt like my Ellenberger fight, I think I fought a really good fight. I was technically on-point, I was sharp, and watching the fight I wasn't disappointed. But I didn't have fun at the end of the day, and that's what I do this for. I want to express myself when I'm up there, like an artist painting a picture.

Listen, Im not technically the best singer in the world.

I wasn't the greatest technician when I played.

I know in my heart of hearts that Ritchie Blackmore is one of the great guitar players of all time. He's a fabulous technician, and he's got incredible skills, and he was a great showman.

It depends who your technician is as to how much fun the recording is.

It is entertainment; we mustn't forget that. Dance is entertainment. You can have the best technicians in the world, but they'll be boring to watch. It has to be about entertainment as well, but it's quality, grace.

You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors.

When I listened to Elvin Jones, man, for the first time I heard a drummer that had all the technique plus emotion, passion, feel, and just - good God!

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

For me, the intellect is always the guide but not the goal of the performance. Three things have to be coordinated, and not one must stick out. Not too much intellect because it can become scholastic. Not too much heart because it can become schmaltz. Not too much technique because you become a mechanic.

If a player has good technique and a good basic speed, but is slow in the head, this may reduce his value to the team.

Fortunately, I got to play some India 'A' games, and some games where the pressure was a little less, so that I can focus on my skill and my technique.

I wouldn't expect anybody to look for superawesome crisp technique out of me.

My favorite kind of acting scenes, or at least where I think people shine the brightest, are odes to Meisner technique scenes where people are face-to-face, and it's almost like a repetition exercise.

The thing you're working so hard for are milliseconds. Saving a 10th of a second from 9.82 to 9.72 is huge. There are a lot of things I can fix from my technique standpoint and making sure I hold my form at the end of the race, to not slow down as much as I usually do.

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?