Quotes About Performance

I lived in constant terror of being asked a question in class. Even if I knew the answer, I was never able to tell it before the class.

I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice, and not just singing on 10 all of the time out of terror.

When I started out, I was absolutely awful, I had no voice, I didn't have a lot of stage presence and most of the interpretive intensity that I brought to the experience was actually terror.

I had big problems with stage fright in the past. I think, slowly, as I've gotten better at it, I've started to enjoy it. It's made me a more confident person in my normal life. I can open up and be myself in situations that used to be abject terror.

I feel no terror when I'm acting. There's no tension. It's just a part.

I'd been to the Comedy Store, and I loved the terror of it and the way the best comedians could control the crowd. What confidence that would give you, if you could somehow survive.

It's weird to take your work into a room and everybody reads it. Then comes the terror part, the dissection.

I try to make the majority of my audience laugh. That's my audience. They'll laugh at the dead terrorist.

I'm the Terry Bradshaw of drag. Not Carrie Bradshaw. Terry!

If I felt like I needed to be aggressive all the time, it would have been impossible to be the player that I was. Or John Terry, if he had tried to be a player of finesse, probably he wouldn't have been the same.

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

Herb Wong was an incredible man. We met when I was performing with Clark Terry at the Wichita Jazz Festival around 1974.

One of the greatest matches I ever saw was Jerry Lawler against Terry Funk in the Memphis Midsouth Coliseum, but there was Flair vs. Steamboat in Nashville back in '89.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn't be here. I guarantee you that.

What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.

I know Test cricket is more about endurance. T20 is more about innovating, creating, and the energy at the wicket.

Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.

That is one of the great things about Test cricket, the ball. Sometimes it swings conventionally, sometimes it doesn't and sometimes it reverses.

To be an actress and act crazy is really fun for me, to be able to be acting like you'd never be able to act in your real life and scream and freak out. It's an interesting test for an actor.

Obviously, international cricket is the main cricket you want to play, especially Test cricket.

In the early days, I often felt that I was taking a math test when we were playing. It was a profound feeling of having to prove myself.

At an event in Germany, I realised the organisers had 'The Great Escape' playing as background music to my test, and I just thought, 'It's really cool. I want that.' It is fantastic to ride to.

Any designer believes his gun is the best, and when its test performance is a bit less impressive compared to others, he feels bitterness and envy.

I had a musician friend once tell me that it's not in the orchestra that you get the true test of the musicians but in the little trios and quintets where you really get to see if they've got the stuff. And the composer.