Quotes About Attitude

Contrary to perceptions, I am completely devoted to my work, though I don't go around tom-tomming my commitment.

Our abilities are limited only by our perceptions.

I don't want to call myself a perfectionist, because perfection is imperfection.

I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can be hard on myself sometimes. Off the court, nothing really bothers me. I'm easy-going.

And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.

I'm ultimately a perfectionist who doesn't believe in perfection.

I don't see myself as a perfectionist.

I'm not a perfectionist. I don't have enough patience to go over the same details over and over trying to get it perfect.

I was a complete brat but was an angel with my mother. I used to be perfectly behaved, and my mother used to be like... 'Really, are you badly behaved with other people?' I was like, 'No, not at all.' But the minute she used to leave the room, I was a brat.

If you take five taxis a day, one driver will be nasty, and the other four are perfectly nice. You remember the nasty one. But you should remember the four who were nice.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

People like crap. It doesn't matter. I think if you have a big mouth and you perform so-so, it is what it is. People are going to notice you more. Nice guys come last. Let's say it like that.

The fans can accept a poor performance, but they won't take it when you choose not to put in the effort.

It is important, even if you performed a role the night before, to think, 'This is the first time this is going to happen.'

I don't think much about how my past films have performed at the box office.

But I do think I'm quite a selfish performer in the sense that I'm not one of those that's like 'Hey, come on everybody lets sing along' you know that kind of thing.

I always go in with the feeling that I'm gonna have a good time in what I'm doing. I entertain myself when I perform. If I do that, then I can see the other performers enjoying my character.

Most performers are used to the highs and the lows. If you can let a low stop you, that would be a sad commentary.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

So much of performing is a mind game.

I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.

I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.

People think I'm a very serious actor, which I am. But you know, if you don't have a sense of humor doing what I do, you perish.

I'm not pert and perky anymore - when you're over 60, it's 'feisty.'