Quotes About Performance

An actor should refine public taste.

Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master, At which the audience never fail to laugh

Dramatic action, therefore, is not with a view to the representation of character: character comes in as subsidiary to the actions.

Tragedy--as also Comedy--was at first mere improvisation.

Dancing imitates character, emotion, and action, by rhythmical movement.

FWAs boost productivity. Stanford University economist Nicholas Bloom found that employees who telecommute are 13.5 percent more productive than employees who go into the office.

Never use a clip from a movie you cannot match or surpass.

Performance is most easily improved not by adding things, but by removing obstacles. Maybe

Though your game is hardly the best You can fray your opponent's nerves By methodically bouncing the ball At least ten times before your serves.

Concentration, Confidence, Competitive urge, Capacity for enjoyment.

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played.

The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.

Bodybuilding is much like any other sport. To be successful, you must dedicate yourself 100% to your training, diet and mental approach.

My father believed just as strongly in training our brains. After Mass on Sunday, he'd take us on a family outing: visiting another village, maybe, or seeing a play, or watching him perform with the police band. Then in the evening we had to write a report on our activities, ten pages at least. He'd hand back our papers with red ink scribbled all over them, and if we had spelled a word wrong, we had to copy it fifty times over. I loved my father and really wanted to be like him.

Football is an art, like dancing is an art - but only when it's well done does it become an art.

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

In the end I'm a comic, and nothing fits the talk-show mode like a stand-up comic.

I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.

The reason why most absurdist plays take place in a no man's land with only two characters is mainly financial.

Theatre as I conceive it is wholly and absolutely tied to performance. I think that performance is only the projection to the senses of situations and images.

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

I love when a song is conceived as a jigsaw puzzle in the studio, and then it's a natural to play live. That's my gauge of success for a song.

I would just stand there puzzled, then realize this would be a great place to make a show.

I'd love to perform in India, but I don't book the gigs. It's one of the few places I haven't played. One of the Indian instruments that I love is the sitar. I played it on some of my songs, including 'Pyramid of Cheops' and 'Crucify.'