Dash Mihok Quotes

I really like to kid around, and it's my own way of concentrating. In order for me to be able to feel better and concentrate, I need everybody else around me to be relaxed.

I meditate and pray before going onstage - it helps me focus.

I feel like saying we need to all calm down a little. Let's take the time to breathe. I have no intention of allowing myself be distracted.

I think one reason people play golf is it allows them to obsess about something other than the daily crap. It takes your mind off that.

I meditate two hours a day, and every year I do one big long meditation course. I love it, and I'm really into it.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

When I'm working I don't have room to think about myself and my own issues. It's really freeing. There is no room for me, which is really nice.

I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.

As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.

I haven't watched a lot of football at all. Easiest thing for me was to take my mind away from the game all together and focus on the things that I need to get right. And football wasn't one of those things.

Anything that can keep me distracted and from my own brain, it's good.

I don't want to bring my personal issues to the field during game time. I don't want to take focus from anybody else.

When they say 'action,' I am into it completely and forget everything around. When they say 'cut,' I am back to myself.

I focus on each leg and not what the score is.

When I was younger, I used to think ahead too much, and that would make me lose concentration in the match I was playing.

If - when someone asks me a question, if I could just focus on not joking, I think that would be great, because for some reason, I can't.

I don't really think about the crowd when I am in the middle. I actually forget about the crowd, forget the money; that's exactly what I always do.

Be. Here. NOW. Don't forget to breathe. When all else fails, grab a clown nose.

As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not caring about you, they're caring about the character.

Always staying focused is something that's been very tough for me. I'm still working on it.

When I am rehearsing for a play, I try to read nothing that might distract my concentration from the work in progress.

When a piece gets difficult, make faces.

I try to meditate every morning. It relaxes me, clears my mind, and sets my day off on the right foot before things get too manic.

Once you just tell yourself, 'OK, I'm going to have a breakdown right now, and I'm going to cry for an hour, put my phone away. I'm going to go swimming, and then I'm gonna make my family dinner and lay on the couch and watch 'Ru Paul's Drag Race,'' once you accept that it's not the day and you can just have a breakdown, you're over it.

I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.