Quotes About Performance

It is no good being good in halves of games or in one game and not in the next one.

I, being the ham that I am, always want people looking at me.

I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.

I always loved to be a ham and be at the center of attention, always in everybody's faces.

An old ham like me needs to be on stage.

In football winning games is all that matters, but a team like West Ham and every team apart from Man City are going to lose games.

Either you came to eat hamburgers and steaks before the game or you came to play. We don't need any hamburger-eaters, we need players. The guys that really have energy and get excited about the game usually can't eat pregame meal.

Hamilton' has changed my life in so many ways. I really do have a family from that show. The people that I shared that stage with every night- they mean so much to me and they're so special and so talented. I'm just a fan of every single one of them and it was an honor to share that stage with them.

'Hamilton' has restored my faith in theater.

I've memorized 'Hamilton.'

In the '80s, 'Dreamgirls' was our 'Hamilton.' It was cutting-edge, and it was what made me want to do theater.

Hamilton' is as hard a job as anything I've ever done. It's equally rewarding, but it's very taxing. It's just so hard physically and emotionally to do it, and it just empties you out.

I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.

If I ever play Hamlet, it'll be in a dress!

Hamlet, that's the only role there is, finally. The only role. After that, you settle down and only do the fun things on stage.

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

I want to play King Lear, Macbeth, Benedict, Coriolanus. I wouldn't mind doing Hamlet again. Well, I'm a little old. Perhaps I can rub Vaseline on the audience's eyes.

Every young actor wants to do 'Hamlet' on the West End. Why? Because they can bring something to it.

I'd love to play Hamlet.

It doesn't matter which era you play in. Wickets are the only way you can contain. Restricting the batsmen to six runs in the first over may look okay but in the next over they will hammer the other bowler. Giving ten runs and taking a wicket - I'll take that any day.

I was just 17 when I made my debut for Lancashire against Hampshire at Portsmouth. I got seven and a duck. I didn't get a wicket, either. Funnily enough, it was more nerve-wracking than playing for England.

I got my first blockbuster break for the movie 'Cocktail,' where I sang 'Second Hand Jawani.'

When I'm driving, the fewer distractions there are, the better it is to focus on the job in hand.

I think chemistry and great acting go hand-in-hand.