Quotes About Performance

To me, the box-office is basically the cost of film. If your film costs so much and your box-office is so much and a bit more, you are okay.

When did it - When did it become okay for someone to hit home runs and forget how to play the rest of the game?

It is like football with coaches, like, 'We're only going to think about the next game.' It is really true, all you think is, 'Okay, we have to make a good next episode.'

Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.

Sometimes a great director will do a bad job and an okay director will do a great job. You never know.

When I saw my first Broadway show, 'Beauty and the Beast,' I was like, 'Okay, I'm definitely gonna do this.' After that, I did little shows and started auditioning.

It's okay to take yourself too seriously if you're a serious actor and you've got the scrubs on. And then with me, it's kind of like, well, I'm a comedian, I'm making fun of everybody and everything. And I'm making fun of myself. I'm having fun making fun of and for other people.

Basically, I grew up watching Carter girls on stage, watching my grandmother, my mom and my aunts perform. They used to say, 'Okay, Carter girls, you're on!'

I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.

I started playing in nightclubs when I was about 14 in Oklahoma.

I really like musicals - 'The Music Man,' 'Oklahoma!,' 'Li'l Abner,' 'Annie Get Your Gun.'

Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice.

In the old days, if you topped the bill one evening, you'd do 22 minutes maximum, and if you overstepped and did 27 one night, you'd get a knock on the door telling you it wasn't acceptable.

I'm old enough to remember seeing James Brown live.

If you're good enough, you're old enough: that's what everyone says. When a talented young player emerges, his age doesn't matter; people want to see him in the team. So why, when you become older, is the assumption that you are no longer good enough?

Ever since I've been old enough to shave I've been playing clubs.

One advantage of doing Lear at 70 is that you don't have to play an old man.

In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a lot of comedy - and that's sort of like home to me.

With Faith No More, even though we're a bunch of old men, what I remember about our best shows is some sort of confrontation with the audience.

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

I love the old school wrestling.

I come from an old school of thought where there are musicians on stage, in the house, sitting and jamming to create things. I cannot make music without live instruments. It just doesn't feel right.

I feel like my old self on the ice.

To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well.