Quotes About Performance

Take care of yourself: When you don't sleep, eat crap, don't exercise, and are living off adrenaline for too long, your performance suffers. Your decisions suffer. Your company suffers. Love those close to you: Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationship is.

I did two or three plays every summer.

I've always played my best golf in the summer.

I love music; I love dancing. I took, like, eight years of ballet when I was a kid, and I still love dancing. There's been a couple of films where I was able to do some dance numbers, like 'Romy and Michelle' and 'Summer of Sam,' and I'm so happy when I get to do that.

That's what I tell all the kids who come to my summer camps: 'You'll get a shot; it's about what you do with it.'

I want to win trophies in the summer and not accolades in the winter.

I suppose I'm happy when I know I've given a horse a good ride, no matter where it is. I like playing golf in the summer; I'm happy when I hit a good shot, and I enjoy watching Arsenal playing beautiful football, but overall I can't believe you can be happy when you're not winning. I honestly can't accept that.

I feel like I am one of those artists that, thank god, can sing live.

I find theater terrifying. There are no do-overs, you know? It's all happening live. You need to be in it 100 percent at any given moment, and the audience is right there. I'm really intimidated by theater, but it is my first true love. I love theater. I love that anxiety.

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

Actions speak louder than meetings.

This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

Alan Shearer has done very well for us, considering his age. We have introduced some movement into his game because he has got two good legs now. Last season he played with one leg.

Being an athlete is a state of mind which is not bound by age, performance or place in the running pack.

My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.

I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Is it not a noble farce, wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the whole vast universe serves for a theatre?

You never play age, you play character.

From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.

From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.

I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?

How many ages hence Shall this our lofty scene be acted over In states unborn and accents yet unknown!