Quotes About Performance

One thing about Ron Artest, he's a hooper.

I've shouted this from the rooftops, and I'll say it again: There's not another man on this Earth who is my size who can do what I do.

Going into my rookie year I expect to play well and I expect to win a lot of games.

I think one thing I had going for me that a lot of rookies didn't is that we played 15, 16 games every year in college.

I was fortunate to be in a great situation in Canton, be the leader of the team my rookie year. I got to show a lot of people that I was an NBA player on a nightly basis.

In my rookie year, I got a chance to play and from there on, I just tried to prove I can be a really good player in this league.

Coming out as a rookie, no. 4 draft pick, you expected to see some playing time.

Live-action is more fun for me, because you're acting with people. When you do voice-acting, many times you're not even in the room with the person that you're acting with.

When I was a kid, I would sing in people's living rooms and for different little family things.

I play in a lot of empty rooms.

Love is the root of everything. Whatever you do you must do with love so I also sing with love and perform with love for the love of my audience.

In Maharashtra, films are not as big as theatre. I think theatre is deeply rooted in this state's culture.

I definitely enjoy performing on stage with The Roots.

When I'm not on T.V. or working on a movie, I'm on the road doing stand-up. That's my roots.

My roots are in theater.

My agent knows what I'm looking for. And I'm also looking for a new agent, too, so I'm putting it out there. Again, I'm not going to turn down every role, because there is no bad role, really. It's all what you bring to the role, but that traditional, 'Stand here and open a rope,' I'm not doing it.

The part inside the ropes, the part where people decide if it's a good match or a bad match, that's the part that I take very, very, very, very, very seriously and that I respect the most.

But I don't really want to play with Axl Rose.

Derrick Rose - he's had his opportunity. He's been an MVP in the league. His efficiency isn't what it used to be.

It is easy to play well when things are going rosy.

When you rotate, you have to get the balance right. When you rotate and you win, it's great but when you rotate and you don't win, that's when the problems start.

If you leave me waiting 'round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able to do it straight away. That's my job, like your job is to do what you do.

Any team can't give top performance all year round.

You can see, even the best players, they can lose in the first round.