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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think you need to do that.
Top athletes understand that to play at their best, they must alternate periods of intense performance with periods of strategic renewal.
Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge.
You think of, like, Justin Timberlake. He does a three-hour performance every night, and it's like, wow, I don't know how that guy does it.
Some days you really don't feel like racing and you have a great performance, some days you feel great and you have a mediocre performance.
I've seen how much effort has to go into a tour, the performance and also how to look after yourself, not just physically, but mentally too.
It's not all the time, but you get a sense when you're reading something that it's no longer about boxing or the performance. It's personal.
Honestly, I don't think I'm exceptionally pretty or talented. But the advantage I have is that the performances I do can only be done by me.
I believe we can accelerate our acumen, performance and success by leveraging our associations and spending time with people better than us.
I think the biggest difficulty from transitioning from professional wrestling to the acting world is generally toning down your performance.
When you're recording to analog tape, it captures performance and you can't necessarily manipulate that in different ways. It is what it is.
The on-stage Gracie may look poised, but the real Gracie is shy, a little self-conscious, and, before every performance of my life, panicky.
Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.
We all tried rapping, we all tried singing, we all tried different kinds of styles and performances, so we naturally found our perfect spot.
One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service.
I still do my comedy and my performance stuff and my acting so it's not all-consuming. But I do find myself drawing more and more these days.
I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.
I wouldn't do nudity in films. For me, personally... To act with my clothes on is a performance; to act with my clothes off is a documentary.
We must promote solid traits such as work ethics, a dignified lifestyle, matching actions to rhetoric, performance rather than grandstanding.
I was the worst extra, I was 'that' guy. I was the guy on the phone trying to get the Oscar for best extra - for best background performance.
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.
No two managers are the same and I believe how players are man-managed on a daily basis has a huge influence on their performance on the field.
Sometimes you can just have a dialogue with an actor beforehand and shape the performance then, but other actors need more guidance on the set.
Brock Lesnar and I are as different as any two people can be. What drew us together was the love of the actual performance aspect of what we do.
My prayer is improvised - though like some standard jazz performance, the improv happens within pretty strict parameters - and asks for nothing.
My parents always wanted me to know why eating healthfully was important to overall performance, probably to drown out my whining for junk food.
I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.
Presidents and cabinet officials could send a strong message of accountability if they held senior appointees responsible for their performance.
My time is much too precious to be wasted on people who merely want to talk about being a high performance person and can't or won't take action!
It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
In most cases, my favorite Jethro Tull songs will be determined by how I feel about them as live performance songs, not by the recorded identity.
I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.
I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to experience it and come away convinced on their own.
What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
Federal employees are not rewarded for performance or excellence or results but, rather, for showing up, and often times, they don't even do that.
I started taking part in college competitions... my first-ever performance with a band was in McDonald's, and I got Rs 500. I still have the note.
As a goalkeeper, you want to be the best, but you can only get better by playing games, making saves, and putting in man-of-the-match performances.
Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone. They zero in on one narrow aspect of their performance and set a stretch goal to improve it.
There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible.
In a live performance, it's a collaboration with the audience; you ride the ebb and flow of the crowd's energy. On television, you don't have that.
For me, 'Mary Magdalene' is the most beautiful film I've shot with the performances and the script and the actors and ensemble. But not one saw it.
A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team.
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.
Patsy Ferran in Tennessee Williams' 'Summer and Smoke'-I thought that was just one of the most phenomenal performances I've seen from a young woman.
If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works.
Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country.
I got my big break at the Royal Variety Performance in 2006 and returned in 2008, but now to host it is such an honour and I'm unbelievably excited.
When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.