Berenice Bejo Quotes

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

I've worked countless hours in the gym, so I feel like I'm already prepared for the game. So when I'm listening to music pregame, it's really just about personal enjoyment.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.

To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on my playlist.

I'm supposed to relax and concentrate on the image of myself out there skating my race.

I tend to do yoga before I go on stage, so that keeps me nice and calm.

An opera singer is like an athlete before a match. An athlete cannot overdo anything. In order to perform at the highest possible level, you need to refrain from activities so as to be able to express this power.

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.

I listen to music before my competitions to get me pumped up. It helps me stay focused.

When you're acting, you do have to prepare yourself for doing that. You have to leave behind - or you try and leave behind - anything that's going on in your personal life.

I never miss yoga before a show.

When a game comes around, that's the time to be serious. During the week, the training sessions are serious, but away from there, you have to relax and switch off.

If you're stressed at work, or before a competition, or if you need to be energized, or relaxed, there's so many scents that kind of take you there.

It's our way to prepare for games: the music is on before the game and after, so it's not like because we won we're going to change it. It's just because it's the thing we do; it's the thing that gets us relaxed, maybe.

I listen to worship music before the game to calm my nerves and just go out and have fun. It's a game, and I try to enjoy it.

I practice a personal meditation and have a gala apple before each show.

Generally, I can't really do much without music playing - even writing or thinking. Peace and quiet means putting on a song.

My preparation is always mediation and deep breathing. And the rubbing of my hands together just gets my energy going.

I'm constantly preparing. Material hits me; I'm always writing. I go back and listen to my shows and just prepare and put my set together. But the day of, I like to have some downtime. A nice lunch is important for me.

Positive vacations have a significant effect upon energy and stress.

I actually rid myself of superstitions, but I do a quick 20-minute meditation before games.

I don't listen to music when I ski - I find it distracting - but I will sing to myself before I go to just get my mind out of what I'm doing and relax a little bit.

Around me, there's always music playing. It just calms me down; it soothes me. It helps me write. It helps me with my mood.

In the lead-up to competitions, I just watch box sets and DVDs and play 'Candy Crush.'