Quotes About Performance

I have five, six, seven things I do before those lines are in my brain. I say them like I'm a robot; I sing them. I put a pencil in my mouth, and I say them. I cook. I play with a cushion and say them - so they really are inside of me.

I think that I can do with the Penguin what Heath Ledger did with the Joker.

When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

It's always pressure to take a pen, doesn't matter if it's against City, or another team. It's always pressure to take the pens.

People don't do what you expect but what you inspect.

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, 'Oh, you're playing yourself.' I guess it's kind of a compliment. Or people say, 'Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.' The work is to make it look effortless. That's the hard part.

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

I've always said people say on a dramatic show, 'I was crying. It was so emotional when he went and grabbed that little girl from a burning building and handed her over to her mother.' In comedy, the best thing you can say is, 'I think it's funny.'

People say, 'How can you stay in a play for a long time?' I say, 'The audience is never the same.'

There was a little bit of ham in me. And there's a lot of people say there's a lot of ham in me.

Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.

As an athlete, I'd average four hours a day. It doesn't sound like a lot when some people say they're training for 10 hours, but theirs includes lunch, massage and breaks. My four hours was packed with work.

A lot of people say, 'AC/DC - that's the band with the little guy who runs around in school shorts!'

People say: 'Oh, it's only acting,' but it's not ever just acting. At least not with me.

I finish the game, and sometimes I don't play very well, and my grandmother calls up to ask why I haven't played well. Instead of being criticised by Pep, it's my grandmother!

People talk about ballroom, but they don't really understand the history. Crystal Labeija, Avis Pendavis, Paris Dupree, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey. These were the women that really brought ballroom to life.

In 'Bunny,' I have got my dialogues - almost 80 per cent of my shots were okayed in a single take. I did put in effort and did a lot of homework.

In every match, I want to give my 100 per cent.

When you touch the ball 400 times per game, it's normal that you can lose the ball a couple of times.

I'm not an impressionist, per se, but if you do any kind of comedy - and they ask you to do that, most of the time - there's some degree of appreciation, I think, involving somebody you like.

Against each player, I will give 100 per cent. I give my best in every game.

You cannot always play at 100 per cent, especially at the end of the season when you don't have much energy left.

There's only one rule in stand-up, which is that you have to be funny. Yet 99 per cent of comics look and talk exactly the same.

I think rugby is 80 per cent mental.