Quotes About Performance

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.

If professional wrestling did not exist, could you come up with this idea? Could you envision the popularity of huge men in tiny bathing suits, pretending to fight?

I want people to go to the movies. I am the man of the spectacle. I'm playing.

The Heartbreak Kid, Shawn Michaels, is gonna be the man of '96.

I always say we got 700 pounds of pork up front. They're going to hold guys down and allow us linebackers to make a lot of plays. Even in practice. I'm loving it, man.

I am a thespian trapped in a man's body.

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

I'm not a leading man. I'm a character actor. That's what I want to be.

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

Never ask a man what he knows, but what he can do.

If all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players, where do all the audiences come from?

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

Mad Men' was really my first television role, and it never feels like TV to me. It's done at such a high level.

I felt I could become a performer who stood out, who challenged the way things were done and make it more creative and also encourage men and women to not be afraid of their sexuality.

Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.

I remember once having to stop performing when I thought an elderly man a few rows back from the front was actually going to die because he was laughing so hard.

An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.

I've certainly played those leading man or male juvenile roles, where you're not supposed to make people laugh.

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit.

I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled.

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.