Quotes About Performance

I was on the soap opera 'Days of our Lives.'

I was on a soap opera before that for three years, where I was the nicest guy on earth.

It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.

I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.

My mother became a casting director, and she cast me in a soap opera called 'One Life to Live.' I was, like, 8 years old, playing a kid who had hurt himself on a skateboard. I had, like, three lines. I did the lines, and everybody in the studio applauded - I was immediately hooked after that. I was like, 'This is the life for me.'

On a soap opera, you'll do an episode and a half a day, and in prime time television, you're hustling to get an episode done in eight days. That's a little bit frustrating sometimes. But there's also something exhilarating about it. It's kind of like live theater in a way, where you get one crack at it.

Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in working for camera. I made myself watch myself every day. I would sort of try and be objective about it and critique myself a little. There's a lot more skill set than people realize in soap operas. They shoot, like, 35 scenes a day.

Soap operas are like acting boot camps.

If I had a choice, I would rather watch a comedian not involve themselves in politics at all but be hilarious than someone who doesn't really know what they're talking about getting on their soapbox and complaining.

Comedy makes me soar, and comedy is very serious business.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

I prepared for the part by drinking, but I was sober when I was performing.

I was totally sober in college and really, really focused. I just took the time when other people might be partying and just made music and played at the party instead.

I will always remember the first show I did clean and sober... It was in New Mexico, in Albuquerque. I literally felt elevated, as everything was coming with such clarity.

I reckoned I could meet more girls being in a band than playing soccer.

To play a soccer game, you have to be in very good shape.

Now, modern economies have a very effective mechanism for deciding if salaries are really too high: it's called the free market. That's how most people's salaries are set, after all, including those of major-league baseball players and European soccer players.

What I learned from directing, I learned from soccer, where it's like a coach-player relationship.

I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game.

The most direct path to achievement whether you're an entrepreneur, a company executive, or a pro soccer player is to be a great performer and a great team member. This is also the secret to a meaningful career and self-fulfillment.

What I like about it is the creativity. When I watch good soccer players - the way they have to make a play out of nothing.

With soccer, it's such a dynamic sport. It's important that however you play, you should be training like that.

I just want to play well, have the people in Chicago enjoy watching soccer. You have a very good baseball team, a very good ice hockey team, and a very good football team. Hopefully you'll have a very good soccer team.

That's soccer. There are good games and others that aren't so much.