Quotes About Performance

That's part of Jurgen Klopp's job, is to psychologically find out how to get his players playing.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

Not many people know this, but at the start of the Premier League season I started seeing a psychologist, because I could do everything on the field, but mentally I was empty.

Many top professional sportsmen from different sports see a psychologist.

I have a coach, a physio and a psychologist.

A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.

I used a lot of sports psychologists when I was younger... sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn't.

I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.

In my own opinion, psychology in football is far more important than anyone believes, including the coaches.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

Before I got into acting, I was always interested in psychology, which I think is very common with a lot of actors because in a weird way, psychology and acting kind of seem interwoven.

One of my favorite classes was horror in theater and psychology.

Singing involves a great deal of psychology.

In cricket, there is a lot of psychology in the game, especially if you are watching people who are not top-class.

I knew no one had better ring psychology than Jake Roberts.

One of the many joys of being an actor is to understand the human psychology.

Playing piano well is one thing, but attempting to play at concert level accompanying Meryl Streep while Stephen Frears is filming you in front of hundreds of people is - well - psychotic.

I love acting. It's the one job I know of where you can go in, go through complete catharsis - emotionally, physically sometimes and mentally - and at the end of the day say, 'See you in the pub, guys.'

I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.

You'd be playing in a pub in the afternoon. Then late at night, you'd be playing a club. You got into that habit: 'If we don't play, we don't eat.'

I suppose when I started out I didn't know the kind of comic I wanted to be at all. So in a way, the audience wrote my act. I went in and did stuff that I would have done in the pub, and some of it they liked, and some of it they didn't. And I kept what they laughed at.

What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.

I don't like bonuses for public services employees who do great jobs, like prosecutors or judges.

The difference between comedians and the general public is that we are meant to be funnier. And when you've got politicians giving material so easy that the general public is doing it, what is the necessity of us anymore?