Quotes About Performance

Just learn your lines and don't bump into the furniture.

My advice about acting? Speak clearly, don't bump into people, and if you must have motivation, think of your pay packet on Friday.

I want to see you shoot the way you shout.

You can't think and hit at the same time.

Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it is a business.

Citius, altius, fortius. (Swifter, higher, stronger.)

Courage permits the caliber of performance to continue at its peak, until the finish line is crossed.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.

Football games aren't won, they're lost.

'Tis the motive exalts the action, 'Tis the doing, and not the deed.

If you lose, you're going to be fired, and if you win, you only put off the day you're going to be fired.

Talkers are no good doers.

Good heavens, television is something you appear on, you don't watch.

Television is not the truth. Television is a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats, storytellers dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.

Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.

When compelled to cook, I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag.

Make'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster, and I can write faster than anyone who can write better.

When an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate them by his best.

When a ham actor told George Jessel "I'm a sensation at the Roxy. Last night I had the audience glued to their seats," Jessel snapped, "Wonderful! How clever of you to think of it."

The Empire does not require that its servants love each other, merely that they perform their duty.

Yet is it not the heart but the members of play that elevate us above the beasts: the fingers with which we touch the clavichord or the flute, the tongue with which we jest and lie and seduce. Lacking members of play, what is there left for beasts to do when they are bored but sleep?

And this about-to-see-God stuff? Total buzz kill, and not because he was religious in the human way or jel that she was having a great time while he was thinking of pizza. Her grating, squeaky YouPorn performance with the head throws that kept landing her extensions in his face was getting on his nerves.