Quotes About Performance

I only try to play good soccer.

What soccer and coaching gave me was sort of a stage.

As a soccer player you want to perform, whether it's in front of 72,000 or even 1,000. You always want to be your best because you never know who's watching.

Now winning is more important and it trumps the way you achieve it. Unfortunately for soccer, the style doesn't matter so much.

A soccer star is on the field for two hours. In hockey, your star player is on the ice for 20 minutes.

I'm a much better comedian than I am a soccer player.

Soccer is the most improvisational sport. There are no set plays. And in soccer, as in improv, you are trying to find the flow.

Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject.

Children from a given family background, when put in schools of different social compositions, will achieve at quite different levels.

I made my debut in 2006 and absolutely, there was the pressure of the cricket, but there was no social media. There was no direct feedback to your phone. If you wanted to, you could avoid it.

No one would come to my drag shows before 'Drag Race' but I had a big social media following because I knew had to work it. I am very active on social media.

Social media allows comics to bypass the gatekeepers and connect directly with people who will want to come see them.

I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.

It's not just about checking the box on corporate social responsibility. It's about hitting our bottom line.

I am sure the audience that looks on me as a Mahadev knows that at the end of the day, I am an actor playing a God. But that doesn't exonerate me from a social responsibility.

I don't socialize in drag anymore. If I'm in drag, I'm usually onstage or in the dressing room or in a car service.

I don't perform well in private. Socially, I mean. And I didn't as a child. Actors aren't necessarily outgoing, are they?

I'm not here to affect you politically or socially. I'm here to make you laugh. I use the news as the palette for my jokes.

Socially, I'm fine, and academically, I'm doing OK too.

Drag has always been very political and challenging of societal norms and other aspects of life.

I am an actor so I have to do my work and going beyond societal norms.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

I get asked a lot about the Rock N' Sock Connection.

For my first Hollywood film, I really didn't want to be doing a film where I'm looking like a stooge with fake snakes that look like socks.