Quotes about Performance

To learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not do is really not to know.

Before a performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone." Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you. Your creative, visual right brain is one of your most important assets, both in creating your personal mission statement and in integrating it into your life.

And most important, start applying what you are learning. Remember, to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.

Most people see effectiveness from the golden egg paradigm: the more you produce, the more you do, the more effective you are.

Theater's my first love. I love it. It excites me. It feeds me.

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.

As an actor in the theater you're taught that you never play a bad guy. You have to love who you are. You can't say, "Oh, I'm a bad guy." How do you play that?

I love watching gymnastics, swimming, and track and field.

And even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labour under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him; but on the contrary, if they fall any thing below the opinion that is conceived of him, though they might raise the reputation of another, they are a diminution to his.

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.

Pee-wee Herman yelling through a vocoder