Quotes About Performance

I think the more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

At a certain point in my career, I was probably having a difficult time 'holding space.' So you get a character that has to be commanding in order for him to resonate and make sense.

The fault always lies in the candidate or the head coach or the guy holding the ball.

A positive, high-performance culture can quickly turn negative if the CEO is not rigorous in constantly articulating values and holding people accountable for both results and values.

My thing is I'm always concerned about my kids and their bodies holding up in the industry. We don't have time off. They run 365 days a year and gone all the time and performing every night. I'm kind of leaning for them to go to Hollywood.

The kind of work I do, there's usually a lot of money on the line; there are jobs on the line. It's not a world that lends itself to everyone being friendly all the time. We're certainly not sitting around holding hands singing 'Kumbaya.'

If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.

What holds you back in comedy is fear.

I've been in some wonderful shows, but nothing holds a candle to 'The Larry Sanders Show.'

What it feels like when you're playing good? I don't know. It feels the same as every other day. Just more putts are going in the hole.

The name of the game is put the ball in the hole.

All I can do is do my best work, try to create the best kind of moment to moment reality that I can do. That's what I do. I'm an actor. And all the rest of it is like baseball. You hit the ball. Sometimes it goes in the hole. Sometimes it goes to the player.

Being an actor is like being a bass player: one of the component parts to the collective hole.

I once fell through a hole in the stage.

When I see the ball going in the hole, I'm a completely different player.

I have to chase down the most scientifically efficient way to get the golf ball in the hole.

I'm going to consistently hit anywhere between .290 and .310. Anything above that, I'm catching breaks and finding holes.

I'd rather be an athlete than a fighter, an athlete is going to go there and figure out the ways to win, see the holes in the game.

You don't want to be playing 36 holes on the day before a game.

Just acting on someone else's set feels like a holiday, almost.

I've done stand-up at airport Holiday Inns and that's where you feel like you're doing comedy for people that hate it.

I did have good movies but they did not work in the Box Office... I did 'Holiday,' 'Aksar,' 'Plan' they were all good movies but they did not work.

I do get antsy if I haven't got lines to learn, a character to play. But yes, I do take holidays.

I took the part in 'Mr. Holland's Opus' because no one had ever asked me to play 'a life' before. I get to age through 30 years. The idea really challenged me.