Quotes About Performance

My audiences have given me lots of love as a tennis player. I hope they appreciate my passion for acting.

I'm a decent table tennis player, but if you were to put me up against any of the guys you see on television at the Olympics, I'd be lucky to get a couple of points.

I love an actor who comes in, ready to work. It's like a good tennis player. They hit the ball where you don't expect it, and it's great.

Franco Corelli is my favorite tenor.

You got to play the flute as a flute, like that. You can't play like a tenor concept on soprano; it sounds wrong. But some guys do it, and they think it's O.K., but not so!

Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra.

When I sing, I want people to think only about the tenor and only about the music.

I am a tenor buff. I hear myself.

I play saxophone, I play tenor sax.

The baritone can serve functions that the alto and tenor cannot, in orchestral voicing.

A movie contains literally tens of thousands of ideas. They're in the form of every sentence; in the performance of each line; in the design of characters, sets, and backgrounds; in the locations of the camera; in the colors, the lighting, the pacing.

I have to live with what I say, or don't say, tens of thousands of times a game.

If you come on a band tense, you're going to play tense. If you come a little bit foolish, act just a little bit foolish, and let yourself go, better ideas will come.

I'm not the first one to say it, but that time onstage is a heightened sense of present tense.

You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.

A lot of times when I'm confident and relaxed on the court, I'm going to be a pretty tough out. But when I'm not so confident and not so relaxed, I tense up and my balls fall short and everything. It just sort of unravels.

I used to be tense or nervous before heats. But I've learned to get rid of the negative stuff and just stay relaxed and positive - and it seems to be working for me.

Musicians get tense at big gigs. Some you can't talk to before the concert; some you can't talk to afterwards; some need the same size dressing rooms as others; others need bigger; some have comments to make on others' musicianship or how a particular song ought to be played.

I find it hard to be joyful on screen because I'm so tense.

Yes, well, on stage I'm a different person, very aggressive, very tense. That's not me because I'm humble and polite, unless someone is rude to me.

The Edinburgh Fringe is a tough beast and you do whatever you can to get through it. But it's really the worst place to see comedians; everyone is so tense and nervous because it feels like Ofsted inspectors are out there.

That's what a lot of people say, especially in college, it looked like I'm lackadaisical out there, like I'm not really paying attention. If I'm always tense, I'm going to be overthinking the game. I try to just go with the flow.

Football should be tense, fair and attractive.

Anyway, when I get sorta tense and start thinking about every shot, that's when my game falls apart.