Quotes About Performance

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

Up to a considerable point, as I see it, there's nothing difficult about golf, nothing. I see no reason, truly, why the average golfer, if he goes about it intelligently, shouldn't play in the 70s

Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

Fifteen years before I became a screen actor, I was in the theatre. A lot of my work was comedy, which I loved doing. It's harder.

Trying to make normal conversation . . . I felt like a character actor trying to return to an old role.

I imagined this scene taking place simultaneously in kitchens all across suburbia, a vast performance of which the actors are unaware, directed by a mysterious force that goes by the name or misnomer of "culture

Klaus's charm, at least for me, was that his voice already sounded like an imitation of itself; Klaus was an actor bemused to be playing Klaus. And yet the effect of this doubling was generous, self-deprecating;

He danced there like an overturned centipede.

Speed in music is like a sweater on a dog: mostly for show.

Tone doesn't demonstrably exist in composed notes. It exists only in played ones. It's the most human part of music, the carrier of emotion.

with results that are not meaningfully better and are often worse.

the results are not impressive.

The senator believed I was doing a good job but, for political reasons, had to vote against me.

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

You must always be doing things and obviously succeeding. The hard part is to keep people always at the window because of the spectacle you put on for them. And you must do this for years.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.

Funny movies are funny only in a full house. When the place is nearly empty, you notice how after every joke there's a deliberate pause in the action to allow for a wave of laughter from the audience, and since this evening no one was laughing, the whole thing began to seem sad

Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Speak little, do much.

M]y father discourag'd me by ridiculing my performances, and telling me verse-makers were generally beggars. So I escaped being a poet, most probably a very bad one.

Melakukan yang terbaik lebih baik daripada mengucapkan yang terbaik

Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies.