Quotes About Performance

He's the best practitioner I've ever seen of the Cuban style. But I think that what Rigondeaux sees as an immaculate performance has no corollary to what fans see as a perfect performance. In his mind, to make an opponent look terrible who has been lauded as exciting or favored against him gives him satisfaction.

I'm a terrible dancer! Oh, I'm an awful dancer!

I'm kind of a terrible musician. I'm a very functional musician. I play just about every instrument in a band setting, functionally. But I should not be taking solos.

I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!

I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.

I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go.

I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.

I've had movies bomb with terrible reviews, I've had movies make a lot of money with terrible reviews, I've had movies get good reviews and make money. And I like it best when the movies do well and the reviewers like them.

It's a terrible thing to say, but I hated school. I'm very ADD, and my report card always said, 'If only she performed to her potential.'

Actors always lie about horse-riding, and it ends terribly. I can horse-ride... ish.

You never have an indifferent feeling after an audition. It's either gone really well or really terribly.

I have made a lot of movies, but I don't see any point in talking about films I don't think are terribly good. I have been in a few. I don't know any actor that hasn't.

When you are doing pantomime, you're not immersing yourself in anything terribly deep.

I still suffer terribly from stage fright. I get sick with fear. Not every night, but at the beginning and on occasion - not necessarily when I'm expecting it. You just have to cope with it - take it on the chin and work through it, trying to use the adrenalin to perform.

I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do.

I find talking about acting very boring, having to come out with platitudes about how terribly nice everyone is. I would much rather just do it.

This may sound mad, but you sort of assume that no one's going to watch what you do. You go on set, have a lovely time, and then you forget anyone's going to see it. So it's always a bit of a shock to be recognized. I get terribly embarrassed.

I know that some actors take acting terribly seriously. I take it seriously in that if someone pays me to do it I know I have to deliver.

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.

I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.

There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.

I was terribly shy, but I was always in harmony when I was dancing.

If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any movie, even a conventional movie, with any comedians, they're either not terribly intelligent or they're not doing something well.