Tara Lipinski Quotes

There's something in human performance that is very smooth and very fluid, and at the same time it can be very precise, and that can take a lot of time, trial and error.

One of the great things about doing a play, repeating it over and over again, is that you can practice. And you can get really quite good at it for a while.

Before I do anything, I practice it for a while, and then when I know it's the bomb, then I'm gonna present it to everybody.

I tell people that stand-up's like golf: you gotta do it every day to get it down - or at least three times a week to get it down.

You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

Many's the audition I waltzed into unprepared and wondered why I didn't get it. I learned the hard way.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Rehearsals make a huge difference.

Maybe people have no idea how much work is behind a picture. It can seem very effortless, but there is a lot of work. It's exactly like doing ballet. It's hours and hours, but when you go onstage, it's just the pleasure of dancing.

I knew that acting is like anything - you learn from doing it.

The biggest challenge to me is always technique.

With every passing week, I get an opportunity to improve my acting because I get to do it day in, day out. So a lot of times, I compare it to being a professional athlete.

I think, for different types of things, more rehearsal is very important.

I like to rehearse to the point we're in the ballpark, and expect that we're only going to get one proper take, more or less.

I'm a practice player. The more I practice, the more confident I become.

Great performers - in sports, the arts, business, or whatever field - have undertaken massive amounts of training. And when that training is complete... they train some more, and harder than they expect to perform. Why? Training builds confidence and ensures peak performance.

That's what distinguishes the pros from people involved in amateur theatre. You just go out and do it again and again.

There's scenes where I really want to get things right, and all the kids know me as the person who says, 'Sorry.' I think I've gotten a lot better with that, but it's still the thing that I'm still worried about, trying to get the scene perfect.

You get rid of the mistakes by playing hard.

Because I am of a generation and slightly old-fashioned, my bottom line belief is what you do is you rehearse and you work and you own it. Of course, you hone it during the first few performances but once you have it honed, not that you must ever assume it is perfect, part of the craft is being able to repeat that.

When you look at Beyonce, every interview she does is just perfect delivery, perfect execution, and the thing is, she has honed that skill down.

If you throw the ball 60 times, you are going to make miss some of them. That kind of happens.

I'll keep improving with more games.

I am a fan of rehearsal. I like doing it [scene] over and over and over and over until it looks like you never did it before.