Quotes about Performance

Don't confuse God's love with the love of people. The love of people often increases with performance and decreases with mistakes. Not so with God's love. He loves you right where you are.

In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play them both sublimely.

Trust God's hold on you more than your hold on God. His faithfulness does not depend on yours. His performance is not predicated on yours. His love is not contingent on your own. Your candle may flicker, but it will not expire.

It's not what you know but the kind of job you do that makes the difference.

If I try to be fast then I'm no good, so it's better just to shut everything off and let instinct take over.

I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.

The point with me is that it's always been, even with the stand-up, that the music has to be right. You have to take it seriously. You have to try and play it as faithfully as possible. That way it helps the comedy. Rather than just playing it in a silly way.

I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.

The bottom line is, when it comes to an actor and his performance, whether nominated or not, it simply has to do with whether that character had enough resonance with the audience. You know, to the filmgoers. And that something that you can't control.

End first, then beginning and middle. That's your startup, that's your plan for competing in a triathlon, that's your ballet.

I've read a dozen different versions of Stanislavski's famous Three Questions, i.e. the queries an actor must ask him- or herself before playing any scene. Here's my version: Who am I? Why am I here? What do I want? The second two are pretty easy. It's the first that's the killer.

The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.