Quotes About Performance

And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable.

I've said this before, but I've always felt more comfortable playing the guy who thinks he's the hot shot or thinks he's the greatest and is so far from it, you know? The misguided character. That's always more interesting to me - especially with a comedy. I've always felt inside more like a character actor.

Cool under pressure can be misinterpreted. I'm fired up, but in my mind, I'm calm. Here comes the next play, hurry up, let's go.

We make too much out of past performance, and it's very misleading to investors. It causes them to move money around. They buy a fund that's hot and then it turns cold as all hot funds eventually do. And then they get out. Well, buying at the high and selling at the low isn't going to leave you a satisfied shareholder, right?

Actually, what I miss are people corpsing on stage.

I do miss competing, being out there - the atmosphere, I do miss it.

There are days when I go out on the court and I feel like I can't miss a ball.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

I miss horribly those couple of hours before the performance when you get into the theater and you see people.

I miss being out on the road.

I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.

You have games when you miss shots and when you make shots. But knowing you're here for a reason and you're an NBA basketballer helps.

I'm dying to get back in front of the cameras. I miss it like crazy.

This golf course, you miss a shot a little bit off-line, it's going to bite you.

I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.

I miss singing. I did Broadway forever.

I miss working with great actors, working with great directors.

I need to get better with my 3-wood and hybrid. Those are the clubs I missed the majority of my fairways with.

I'm so lucky to not have to busk anymore, but I realized as soon as I didn't need to do it that I really missed it.

I'm energized by this idea that's live television. In the same way as an athlete when they get on the field or on the court, you have to perform in that moment or it's past you and you've missed.

I think consistency, that's one thing that I look back over my career. You could count on me catching around 80 balls a year or whatever, almost eight, nine touchdowns. And I only missed two games out of 17 years, I'm pretty proud of that, too.

I know I have missed some chances, but that's part of being a striker, and I know it's part of being a striker that when you don't score, people talk about it.

I have missed my fans so much and, above all, have wanted to appear in dramas.

I blew up the mine in 'North Country'. It was about a kilometer long. I was so nervous that I'd do it wrong that I closed my eyes when I did it and I missed the shot completely.