Quotes About Focus

You can do 'Hamlet' while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real.

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

All I have to concentrate on is my performing.

You should not think of business while performing your art. This advice holds true for every artiste, irrespective of what he is doing.

So much of performing is a mind game.

I may be more passionate about my comedy because that's the one place where I feel comfortable - because I'm in the now. Performing is the only time of the day when I have to really force every ounce of concentration into whatever's happening in that moment.

I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places.

When you walk out of your apartment, you think about performing; you do not think about how your opponent looks. So I think the advice from me to everybody is just to go out there and have fun.

Honestly, I'm interested in politics; I'm interested in giving back in some form, performing some sort of civic duty. But I'm not exploring a run for governor or senator or anything along those lines. I'm focused on running Disney.

There have been a lot of amazing action games that, perhaps, the focus is on cinematics or story or even how the camera works so that they've created this amazing immersive experience.

I have a great interest in a number of things, perhaps too many. I admire people who seem to concentrate on only one fixed discipline to the exclusion of almost everything else.

To be truly engaged at work, your brain needs periodic breaks to gain fresh perspective and energy.

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.

I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk. I can't work for extended periods when I'm beginning something. But if I'm at the end of something, I can work on for hours and hours and hours.

I go through periods where I don't really care what I look like, because I feel more focused on the work that I'm doing, and I don't want to think about it. And then sometimes it feels like the biggest part of my day is getting dressed.

What I like about climbing that it's so broad. For certain periods I can focus on sport climbing and then I can shift my focus more on the bouldering or I can shift my focus on climbing in the mountains.

You don't win games by batting long periods of time.

I go through periods where I feel very confident about stuff but other periods that are insecure... I find doing different stuff removes the responsibility of focussing on one thing.

It's not necessary to have read everything about a particular subject in order to get interested in it. The main thing is to sort out what's important and what is peripheral in order to be able to dive in.

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

In 1957, I decided: write or perish.

If you permit yourself, you can fill your day up pretty easily.

I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.