Quotes About Performance

It's certainly strange to do sketch comedy with cue cards at midnight in a skyscraper as opposed to in a basement with your friends.

I think every actor, you can say, has at one point decided to slack, phone it in. But Sean Penn shows up every day and does his job, and the character's always different. Always. 'Carlito's Way,' 'I am Sam,' 'Sweet and Lowdown.'

One mentor I had taught me that people do what you inspect, not necessarily what you expect. In other words, if nobody is watching, there will be some slack off.

Business doesn't cut you any slack because of your gender. You're either good at what you do or you're not.

In America, they slag each other off at the press conference, then get in the ring and don't do anything.

Being in a Grand Slam, doesn't matter what you did before, it's always nervous and excitement.

There's no doubt in my mind that 'Slam' is going to be huge. It's a film about the power of language. People are going to see this and get blown away.

The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.

A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.

Every match I won in a Grand Slam, I take confidence of that, and when I arrive in a final, I know my game is there.

I don't put myself under huge pressure because if I don't play well at one grand slam, I know there's another one just a couple of months away.

Always I say, 'No. 1 in the world without a Grand Slam, you are not a real No. 1.'

Yeah, certainly you want to try to save your energy at a Grand Slam.

It doesn't matter the way you're playing, especially the beginning of a grand slam. It doesn't change anything.

In Grand Slam, you play every two days, five-set match. You have a little bit more time to make mistake.

Almost every Grand Slam, I'm in second week, which is pretty positive for me.

When you're in the slam dunk contest, you try to do the things the average person would have trouble doing on a Nerf basket.

I think I have best result of Grand Slam in U.S. Open.

I feel a lot of confidence from that memory, playing final first time in Grand Slam. But also I always think that I could play a little better in a final. I lost straight sets. I didn't do well.

I used to slap my hip to keep a beat.

We did 'Friends Like These' on BBC and 'Slap Bang' on ITV which didn't work as well.

I don't want to be a slap hitter, but be a dangerous hitter in the lineup and want people to come right at me.

You can lull the paying customers as long as they get slapped.

I'm more old school: I want to be like Keith Richards on stage. It's not interesting to see straight-from-runway clothes slapped on an artist. It's more interesting when you see people who have their own style.