Quotes About Performance

Actors are insanely competitive and they hold back on each other. They are like magicians and none of them want to show their tricks.

As a footballer you always want to test yourself against the best.

Mind you, I would not want the pressure of being number one in the world just two years before a World Cup. There is only one way to go and it is not up.

We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it.

Talking about my personal life onstage, I've realized I'm not one of those comics who can do that. I can allude to it but I don't want to be a confessional performer.

When I'm interviewed on Leno, just be funny, period. That's all they want from me. I don't want to tell my life story.

I'm not a song and dance man, so you're not going to see me on Glee anytime soon. If you want that show to continue, keep me far away from it.

Actors always want you to believe something else even though that's the truth and to do that well it's almost a dying art.

I think that each character has fascinated and interested me enough to want to play him.

It seems like teams want a guy who can get 10, 11, 12 assists. That's the kind of player I want to be. Sometimes that is more important than scoring 30 points a night.

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.

Today in coaching, it's a two-way street. They can fire you whenever they want. Bottom line: It's all about what you can do to better yourself professionally. This is a better move.

Has he (Rickey Henderson) ever been here (Spring Training) the first day? You have to say Rickey's consistent. That's what you want in a ballplayer - consistency.

I don't like to direct the actors by telling them what to do. If anything, it's reminding them where they are in the movie, what's happening emotionally and what they want in the scene.

You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.

In the daytime, you act the way you should act because that is what people pay you for, or want from you.

When I came to Ole Miss, everyone expected me to bring the program back to its glory days. I didn't want to put that kind of pressure on myself.

I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.

I get to do stand-up every single day. I love that live energy exchange between the audience and myself, and to get to say the things I want to say and comment on.

People will buy the car just because it's a great car. We want them to think it's excellent value for money and then, oh yeah, it happens to be electric.

It was Scotty Moore's guitar riff [in "I Want You, I Need You, I Love You"] when he was doing The Steve Allen Show that got me into rock music.

The kids competed for a full 32 minutes. We want the kids to compete on every possession.

There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute.

Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.