Quotes About Performance

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.

Oasis were the last great, traditional rock 'n' roll band. We came along before the Internet so, if you wanted to see us, you had to be there. It makes me feel like a righteous old man.

If you have a great manager, you want to pay him very well.

I love doing shows. I love rocking shows. I love playing instruments. I love singing. If I can find a way to do that and feed my family, then I'm a happy man.

If you don't take it for granted that the other man will do his job, you're not an executive.

The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

Oh, a man with a guitar is nothing compared to a man with a cello! Girls really like the way that we handle our instruments.

I've done everything in the theatre except marry a property man.

I haven't been right all year. I guess, you know, when you don't feel good, and you still get hits, that's when you know you are a bad man.

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

I like the idea of being the funny guy in the dramatic thing, playing a hit man with a weird sense of humor.

When has stand-up comedy been kind to anyone? It goes after anyone who's the target. Comedy attacks, man.

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.

I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

You ever spent eight hours acting in water? It's a lot easier to get in and out of a bath. Hot tubs are bad news for actors, man.

The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.

When he got loaded, the human cannonball knew there were not many men of his caliber.

If Serena Williams played the men's circuit she'd be like 700 in the world.