Quotes About Performance

When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you're a guitar player pursuing a big powerful sound. I mean, no one ever forgets their first Marshall amp.

I was constantly on stage in school, and even while I was pursuing my MBA, I knew that I wanted to eventually become an actor.

Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles.

In the pursuit of a championship and beyond, I'm determined to take my performance, on and off the field, to the next level. I'm confident that MET-Rx and their great lineup of sports nutrition products is the perfect partner to help me do just that.

I had to push exposition through dialogue, which is really, really hard for an actor do.

That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.

A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.

Actors often want to look like they're comfortable. You want to go into an audition saying, 'I'm your gal. I'm what you need.' Yet you don't want to push.

People who can actually challenge me and push me and almost push me to breaking point and extract a performance out of me, I really enjoy that.

There's definitely a push and a pull to 'legitimize' electronic music live by playing the same way that a band would play.

I get scared as crap to perform but I push myself to do it. I don't know what I would be doing without it.

I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.

When I shoot actors, I have that dilemma. I want the actor to be good, and sometimes I have to push them to a place that isn't pleasant. I always think: 'Is it worth doing for the sake of the movie?' But I have to remember the bigger picture.

I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

The guitar is something you kind of embrace, and the piano is something you kind of - when you play it, you sort of push it away. It feels very different.

I'd love to be an award-winning, commercial successful actress! I would love to push myself to the limits as an actress and experiment with playing really interesting women.

When it comes to putting together a new show, we always push the envelope, and that's part of Motley Crue's legacy.

I always think that trying to push yourself as an actor in a direction that you've never been before, developing characters which are more difficult to get into the head of, or are more interesting and further away from yourself, is always a challenge. But, you want to take up that challenge and try your best.

I've gotten into the habit of cranking out a set of push-ups before each show to get my blood pumping and find my focus. I worked my way up from eight to 30. That was a real accomplishment.

I tend to be a lazy actress, unless I'm pushed.

I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them; it's to push them.

I love to play characters who are stuffy and nerdy who either then have a dark side or are pushed to a breaking point.

As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.

Being onstage and communicating with an audience was part of my life since I was very little, but I was never pushed into singing.