Quotes About Performance

I had worked with many actors who were angry at times and often found them to be tense.

I don't show tension and nervousness, but I know how fast my heartbeat races before a race.

When time, money, and results are on the line, it's easy for tension to build.

I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

I'm happy to have a physical part in 'High Tension,' in 'Hereafter,' and in a lot of French movies and Belgian movies. But its not by chance directors choose me for physical parts. I like to do that. I like to tell a story also with the body. It's important, because you can tell a lot of things.

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

I learned very early that an audience would relax and look at things differently if they felt they could laugh with you from time to time. There's an energy that comes through the release of tension that is laughter.

Coming from bad results, you have more tension and you get more into the game, maybe. You never know which is best. I prefer to come from good results. You have more confidence and you believe you are doing things well. But in football everything can change very quickly.

In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real.

Do you agree that when there's tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.

Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.

One of the interesting things about comedy is it's tension release, and nothing creates tension faster than anger.

As an actor, I always like some tension, some distance, between me and the character I'm playing.

There's always very high tension with dance auditions! You're in a group, watching the people in the front of the room, hoping you'll get something, anything that will relieve a bit of the stress.

I never left jazz. The relationship between structure and improvisation - that constant conversation and tension - I've always wanted in every genre and song that I perform.

I have no tension. I only play to give my best.

A standup set ends on a buildup of tension and subsequent release for a big laugh.

Any time you go into the playoff game everyone's adrenaline is high and tensions are going, stuff like that.

As a kid, I used to take the sheet off of my mother's bed, make a tent and put on a show for the neighborhood kids and charge them two packs of matches. Then, the show got so good I started charging a penny.

Ultimately, as players, we are inside the tent, and we have got to deal with what happens between the white lines.

There are so many bands that after their second record are headlining music festivals, and they're still... suited to playing in a tent. Very few bands when they headline a festival can pull it off.

In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.

Sometimes I think on television, you use maybe a tenth of what you are able to do. So it's nice to go, 'Well, I'm gonna take two months and reinvest in acting and storytelling.' You don't get to do that on television.

Now things have changed for the better. Our reforms end seniority and tenure so we can hire and fire based on merit and pay based on performance. That means we can put the best and the brightest in our classrooms - and we can keep them there.