Quotes About Performance

Me and the Dap-Kings, the whole band is playing a wedding band in 'The Wolf of Wall Street.'

Cristin Milioti! Who you might know from 'How I Met Your Mother' or 'The Wolf of Wall Street.' A pure delight.

When I go back to seek inspiration - whether it be from Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, the Beatles, Hank Williams, Ray Charles or Bob Dylan - it's from the performance. Those artists are in the studio playing their instrument and singing. There's no going back and redoing the vocals.

I had to act with a wolf, which made me very uncomfortable! It still does. I think about it all the time!

As far as theater goes, Sarah DeLappe's 'The Wolves' is one of my favorite things I've ever seen.

I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.

We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually it's a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.

Show me one guy or woman as funny as Rodney Dangerfield or as good as George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Bill Cosby, or Joan Rivers. There are a lot of good comics out there, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, I think what you have is a bunch of situational comics.

Cornering is like bringing a woman to climax.

It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living.

You can be too pretty for comedy - man or woman.

Every sitcom needs their straight man or straight woman.

Drag was not only my introduction to womanhood, but my introduction to entertainment. It was the first time I realized that I could move a crowd.

I am the 'Cosmic Dancer' who dances his way out of the womb and into the tomb on 'Electric Warrior.' I'm not frightened to get up there and groove about in front of six million people on TV because it doesn't look cool. That's the way I would do it at home.

I've been performing since I came out of the womb. I've been dancing and singing since I was a toddler. Acting seemed like a natural progression from that.

Well, I've been acting for 50 years now, professionally. I've been acting a lot longer. My mother reckons I was acting when I got out of the womb. But because I've been working in the theater, I've probably only done about 25 movies but I've done more than 100 plays.

I came out of the womb singing, dancing, and telling awkward jokes.

When did I start comedy? I came out of the womb and did 10 minutes.

I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.

I'm saying the excessive focus on what gender a person is, rather than what they do, does a disservice to women.

In my opinion, you keep the standards very high and you maintain one standard. There shouldn't be two standards for women and men, there should be a standard for this job: To do this job, you should have to do these things.