Quotes About Performance

To see if "cluster theory" explained the success of the teams in Tier One, I turned to baseball. In this sport, as I noted earlier, teammate interaction plays a limited role while the performance of individual players has a larger impact.

As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

My home has always been show business.

I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of how shall I say, I dont know.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

To try to live in posterity is to be like an actor who leaps over the footlights and talks to the orchestra.

Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.

This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.

The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying." Samuel Goldwyn

Of the innumerable authors whose performances are thus treasured up in magnificent obscurity (in a library), most are forgotten, because they never deserved to be remembered.

I'll come no more behind your scenes, David [Garrick]; for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

All movies aren't fun some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff.

I am only as good as my last publication. Guess I am doing ok in that area.

Well, the most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating. I had seen all these people before me who are great performers and were reflective of their time--Phyllis Diller and Joan Rivers and Totie Fields and all the early comediennes--and it was always like, "I'm fat! I'm ugly! My husband has to put a bag over my head when he comes to bed!" I was like, "I'm never gonna do that."

My audience is my audience and everybody in it forms an alliance every night. You perform for the entire crowd -- it's not about singling anyone out. And if your work is very, very daring and interesting, then smart people come to it, whether they're gay, straight, black, white, men, women. I mean, you gotta be able to get underneath what's really going on culturally, and then you're always gonna have a smart audience sitting in front of you.

It's getting harder to hone your craft because of YouTube and the internet. You really need to get out to the clubs to hone your craft. A lot of people these days don't have the patience.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.

We tend to worry about our ability to remember names or where we put our keys, but we should also worry about the memory we need to be a great performer in whatever role we fill as a professional, parent