Quotes About Performance

I just tried to go out there and play with attitude, doing what I was supposed to do and knowing my role on the team. Doing what my team expected me to do every night, not just once a week. It was all about work and I was just a tough guy who would knock somebody down.

People tell me all the time you have to be mentally tough to win the championship, and I feel like enough people hype it up to where you have to act different come playoff time. But I'm not a tough guy. So I don't know how to be tough. I don't know what I'm 'supposed' to be doing.

It was very difficult acting. I feel it is a very tough job to portray someone else's character and to behave like that on screen.

Acting in a heroine-oriented film is a tough job.

Standup is a tough job and a gritty job.

It is a tough job to portray a character and make it believable on screen.

I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

I think there's this idea that the depth of an actor's performance is built on tough times or horrible events or isolation, but I never found that. I figured that my imagination coupled with the story can get me anywhere.

We're not robots, we're not factory built. We have feelings, we have families and we go through tough times that people don't know about. Sometimes your form isn't good and there's a reason for that. Sometimes the team isn't playing well and you can't quite work out why.

If you're a lead singer, then you can't afford to be sensitive. On stage, everyone looks at the lead singer, even if you don't want them to - in America, they have those massive follow spots on you all the time; it does your head in. So, if you are a lead singer and you don't toughen up, you're in the wrong job, and you have to get out.

Y'know, you can sit in a room, practise all day, learn your scales and blaze blues riffs: it's easy to hide behind that. But I think with the slide, it's a little bit tougher.

Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.

In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.

It's exciting to play someone who is a bit tougher than I am. I liked feeling those adjustments.

It's a lot tougher to play soccer and make it look believable. But in boxing, it was easier for me. I got injured a lot more in the soccer world. In soccer, I pulled muscles. I thought boxing was going to be tougher.

I think film and television actually is a lot harder. Acting onstage is physically more arduous, but to get to emotional truth within a scene, it's much tougher to do it on film.

If it's a shot for me, if I can make a play, create for someone else, I'll do that. A lot of times you run a play, everybody's watching, everybody's locked in, everybody's pulling over, and it just makes the game tougher for me.

I believe it is tough to be funny and tougher to make people laugh. And it needs to be been done effortlessly. A joke can be comedy, but one can kill the joke if it is delivered badly.

I do feel it's tougher to make a comic scene work than performing an intense scene, for example.

Now that I get to be more consistent with the winning, it's tougher for some people to say that I'm just a showman.

The most pressure I've ever felt to be brilliant was in drama school - those were the toughest auditions. I really wanted to prove myself.

The simplest beats, on what rock music or any music has been formed on, can be the toughest beats to execute and perform, because it's really easy to not respect a simple 4/4 beat, because people always want to play fast.

Toughest job in baseball is the general manager. Second toughest is the hitting coach.

I realized comedy is toughest thing to handle, although I started with theatre and did several stage plays.