Quotes About Performance

I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about Broadway. The audiences are smart, they're educated. They go in ready and they're up for it, they're up for the party. It's a whole different atmosphere.

Job applications are an aesthetic event. They are performance art. They are not about proving you are smart - well, maybe your writing sample does that, but even then, the main point is to get an interview.

Some days, I feel like being known as a smart players, sometimes clutch.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game.

No matter how popular you are as a stand-up - you can go out and fill a 10,000-seat arena and be smart and funny - it's delicate to host an awards show and know where your place is and know that it's not about you, that it's about the people who are nominated, and respect that, but at the same time have your moment to show them who you are.

I need to play smarter and protect the football.

I'm getting a lot better with my conditioning, making smarter moves on the floor.

I am still quick at 250 to 260 lbs and I am smarter.

I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.

I sometimes need to be smarter, but that's not going to change how I drive.

I never played a woman who was smarter than me.

In the shorter form of the game, I think I'm getting a lot smarter with the way I'm approaching my innings and also the way I read the game.

People just don't understand the art form of what we do. It's a mental and physical grind. You can't be a dolt in this industry. On the opposite end of that, you can be the smartest guy in the world and not understand what it is to have a presence on stage.

It's a crazy - crazy - amount of talent on 'Smash.'

No one knows this, but when I would play the clubs back in '65, '66, they used to call me 'Screaming Chicken,' 'cause I would go out and scream, fall on the ground, beat myself, smash stuff, jump through the ceiling, roll on the floor, and act like I was having epileptic fits.

Everyone knows 'Smash' is about musical numbers, and everyone knows we have fantastic dance sequences and great performances.

I'd say the best thing the Violators and I have done is to dominate the U.S. with an arsenal of smash hits.

Personally, whichever ball is lose, I will smash that ball.

It's easy to say, 'This is just a joke.' You know, the bearded lady? And I feel the need to smash it with every performance just because I want to be clear this is not a joke.

The finances of a smash hit do not affect the actors in any way shape or form, it's the attention that comes with it. If it's a financial hit, then a lot of people are seeing it.

Some of the prettiest music I've done was in films that really were not a smash. Your music fares as the film does.

Nahmir got smash hits.

I can't be a nice man on the field. I try to laugh, but whenever I start laughing or be jovial, I get smashed.