Beverly Sills Quotes

Go out there and let it rip and don't worry about overthinking things and trying to be perfect. Because when you try to be perfect, that's when you make mistakes.

I hope I can live up to the faith that has been put in me to do a good job.

In my stand up, I think I try to be less energetic because I feel embarrassed about how much enthusiasm I have. There's something about acting like I don't care, or if I act like I haven't spent enough time on it, it seems to go better. If I act like I'm really trying to sell it, it doesn't go as well.

You can't go over every beat, every second, and worry about how you can do it better - it'll eat you alive.

I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.'

That's the way I like it because there's no time to have nerves about it. You just run out and do it.

I had good and bad seasons for Essex. I was a real form player: if I got on a run, I was happy and confident, but if I had a bad trot, I was far too analytical of my game, worried about it too much and my form got worse.

Guys can see through fake! They can tell someone who's just trying to check the box! So, I've got to be Kirk Cousins and believe that'll be good enough!

If you start imagining an audience for yourself, you don't do justice to the job. You fall into that trap of a self-image.

I kind of just trust what I do and do what I trust.

Sometimes you have to get out of your own way as an actor. Young actors tend to over prepare sometimes and over think it. And actually there is nothing wrong with walking on a set with an empty brain and then on action allowing your adrenaline and your trust in yourself to take over.

A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to widdle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious.

I'm the type of person who feels I have to prove myself first.

On stage is the only place where I really know what I'm doing.

Once you have made a careful decision based on facts, go into action. Don't stop to reconsider. Don't begin to hesitate, worry, and retrace your steps. Don't lose yourself in self-doubting which begets other doubts. Don't keep looking back over your shoulder.

if you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.

As an actor, you can't say, "I'm going to try to be cool at all cost when I do this," because that's the opposite of what you need to do as an actor.

I'm trying not to put pressure on myself to decide what to do at this moment, and just sort of go with what's happening.

When I was younger, I never wanted to rehearse because I thought that someone would figure out I don't know what I'm doing.

A writer like me must have an utter confidence, an utter faith in his star. It's an almost mystical feeling, a feeling of nothing-can-happen-to me, nothing-can-touch-me.... I once had it. But through a series of blows, many of them my own fault, something happened to that sense of immunity and I lost my grip.

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.

What really sells a fight, and any kind of action, is the performance of it. If someone is uncomfortable or uncertain about doing action because they're too concerned about their safety or about being right, it pulls them out of being that character, in that situation.

It's who I am I don't have to try hard

I don't try to knock 'em out, I just know I will

If you can talk the talk but cant walk the walk youll look like a fool. That's the risk but with great risk comes great reward.