Quotes About Performance

Anyone who does stand-up comedy can agree that doing a late-night spot is a dream of theirs.

I liked that improv and sketch comedy were collaborative, but you really depended on other people and a stage to perform. With stand-up comedy, I liked that you had no one else to blame and depend on.

I think it's a very easy thing to make people laugh, especially with a script, and then you've just got to dress up. That's also the idea of comedy in Bollywood. But in stand-up comedy, there's a man with just some content trying to make everyone laugh.

Well, I started trying stand-up before I joined Google, actually. And then I went broke because that's what happens when you try stand-up comedy. You're actually paying to perform.

I never shoot for a film telling myself that I have to make people laugh. I can't even do stand-up comedy.

I always wanted to be an actor. I did drama at Manchester University and then had a stand-up comedy double act with a guy called Bruce MacKinnon.

I'm actually into the idea of doing stand-up comedy, as a joke. You know how people do karaoke for fun? Well it would sort of be like that.

The edge of inappropriate is the spiritual home of the best stand-up comedy.

My passions are stand-up comedy, hard rock and metal, and baseball and the Mets.

You can't be perceived as 'the black actress who doesn't get the same kind of roles as the white actress.' You gotta run the same race. You gotta give the same quality of performances. You gotta have the same standard of excellence, even though people know that you're coming to the race in a deficit. That's just what life is about.

There are women who can play at my standard, if not better, and they can beat men, too, so it would be nice to see them do it as well.

You need to perform consistently, and if you're raising the standard, you have to stand by it. You have to keep on doing well.

I don't just want to go out there and do my job - I want to excel at it. I hold myself to a high standard. I expect to make plays that alter the game, and if I don't, I hold myself accountable.

An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.

As an actor, it's fun to play guys who aren't just locked into a male pattern, but a lot of guys you're asked to play are fairly macho and have a certain rigid standard they're living by.

I established a certain standard of behavior, that, during my playing, there must be no talking.

I hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take.

Most people in the U.K. discovered me playing a standard on Parkinson. In America, it was on VH1 singing an original called 'All At Sea,' which is a contemporary pop song. So the people that know me there tend to think of me in the singer/songwriter category.

You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker.

We're going to make certain that we set a very high standard for ourselves.

I hold myself to a high standard on and off the field.

I'm not afraid to coach guys. But I am going to coach them to win, and I am going to hold them to a high standard.

There's a standard here as you step on the field as a Broncos defender.

I accept that I didn't play very well in Italy for the two years. It was lower than my Ajax standard. I don't know why.