Quotes about Performance

There are wonderful things in real jazz, the talent for improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.

Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.

I think with Shakespeare you can be required to do absolutely anything at the turn of a sixpence - suddenly you go into a battle, suddenly you utter something passionate.

Performancism is the mindset that equates our identity and value directly with our performance and accomplishments.

What you picture in your mind, your mind will go to work to accomplish. When you change your pictures you automatically change your performance

I think the reward for doing comedy is doing the comedy itself. You get to go to work everyday and laugh and make other people laugh and to me there's no greater reward than that.

We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.

I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.

We, performers, work on willpower. This willpower works in a short term, not durational.

Nothing we formulate or do can qualify us for access to God. Only grace can do that- based not on our performance but on the saving work of Christ.

If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would have to come near the head of your list.