A coach once told me there are four factors that determine a players' performance: his tactical awareness, his physical condition, his technical ability and his mental strength.
For me, I've never drawn a distinction between live-action acting and performance-capture acting. It is purely a technology.
I have always loved Las Vegas. It's a traditional place for lounge comics to perform, and I love that.
I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.
The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together.
I'm really in touch with my fans. Through their emails, letters and stories is how I decide what music I'm going to perform.
It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music.
Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out opportunities to perform it.
New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.
The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That's what I enjoy now.
I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.
The thing I like about 'Nashville,' it just happens to be about musicians, and all the music is practical, meaning it's performed at a concert or during a rehearsal.
Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
The North Koreans or Chinese may have a million men in uniform but it's about how you perform.
I loved performing in the 'High School Musical' movies - that didn't seem like work - but the gym felt like torture!
I went to the High School for Performing Arts, and to Howard University on a talent scholarship.
Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.
I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.
There are a million ways of arriving at a performance, any number of them solid.
I wanted to be a veterinarian until I saw a video of a vet performing surgery on a dog. Then I decided I wanted to be a pianist.