Quotes About Competition

Acting for me is like a ping-pong game. That's the secret of acting. When you have a really good actor, I always want to be as good as he is or she is.

The secret of having a successful promotion is having an awesome promotion with wrestling matches that people like.

I've said all along I've never competed with 'The Simpsons.' Not in my own mind.

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again.

Movies don't sit in the theaters for an entire summer like they did in 1982. Now you've got a two- or three-week shelf life so you need to have that awareness right off the bat. And in order to make a lot of people know about your movie, you need to be out there banging the drum and showing your stuff.

In mainland China, there are many good theaters - sometimes better than Hong Kong.

I concentrated on Rossini when I began, and I never really felt any competition. I sang in the best houses, and I believed I was always a first choice. I was lucky in a way - I never felt there was someone else who was getting the roles in another theatre and that we were competing.

Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.

As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.

There are many actors who'll make their living in other areas, and they'll say they don't like theatre. What they're saying is that they're afraid of theatre because they know it will separate those who can from those who can't.

Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.

I used to play 'Grand Theft Auto 4' and used to have a little community and we were some of the best players online.

We must deal with Chinese theft of intellectual property, though no one is sure that tariffs are the solution.

Healthy competition is good for the global economy. Criminal conduct is not. Rampant theft is not. Cheating is not.

The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

You can't have F1 without Ferrari - you just can't have it. It's part of the theme that is the red car, and a lot of it is to do with the colour.

My theme this evening is that America needs a competitive dollar.

Goal scoring is a recurring theme. If you aren't scoring then you aren't going to win games. That's obvious.

I know the 'big spending club v. smaller club' theme is popular in the Premier League. I don't think about it - we are 30 teams trying to win the championship, and you do what you need to do.

there is more than one way to play the game. And there is more than one way to win it.