Quotes About Performance

If anyone ever boos you off stage, that is simply applause from ghosts.

Women are all female impersonators to some degree.

Comedians get jokes offered to them, rock stars get women and underwear thrown onstage, and I get guys that want to take me fishing.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.

You just can't be good in bed anymore. You have to be good at the keyboard too.

Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

Once they call you a Latin Lover, you're in real trouble. Women expect an Oscar performance in bed.

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

My body has been making women laugh for the last 20 years and I'm happy to continue to oblige.

People often ask why comedy is harder for women, and the reason is because a tampon will sometimes fall out when you're on stage. Blokes don't have that worry.

Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.

There was a three hour differential in performances because the sponsor insisted it be done live for California. You would go on at 8 pm in New York but you would also have to go on at 8 p.m. in California. That meant coming back in to do the show at 11 p.m.

Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.

I get enthused by good football because I love this sport. I don't care about which jersey the teams are wearing or which sponsor pays them.

For people coming in through the turnstiles and people sponsoring, we are entertainers and that's where the game is going.

I take every race like my ride is on the line, like it's my last. I don't get sponsors when I finish second. My sponsors aren't happy when I finish second. They're happy when I win.

Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.

It's all very well to talk about how it would be great to have a woman driver, a woman with sponsors and marketing, that's all great but to get into that drive you have to perform. That's what I realized early on when I got into Formula One.

Everybody gets bored or rather emotionally flat sometimes, but most players are not so honest as Tomic. They have sponsors that need to be happy, and they want to keep the tour happy.

I am out there to put on the best performance I can for my sponsors and my team and my fans.

I think you should ride the line between fatigue and chaos. The chaos keeps the energy level and spontaneity maximized, while fatigue is just over the edge, and you should try to avoid it.

There's nothing like the spontaneity of making something work on stage.

I was very young when 'The Carol Burnett Show' came out, but that kind of comedy and the spontaneity of her, I think it really deeply affected me within just the joy of performance.

We never do two shows the same way. The audience has a lot to do with that spontaneity, and it's our job to satisfy them.