Quotes About Performance

If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian.

Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance.

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!

If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

I'm always looking for a chance to play somebody who's completely opposite of me, just because I find it more interesting.

You have to take the chance to bomb and disappoint audiences.

I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs.

I would think if someone connected to steroids made the Hall of Fame, that would enhance my chances of making the Hall of Fame.

I know that if I perform at a really high level, we're going to have a better chance to win.

My favorite song to play is 'Smokin'' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live.

Whenever I see that ball coming my way I am just hungry to get it. When I get the chance to take it I try to score as much as I can.

I'm a huge Kentucky fan. So when there was a chance to do the John Wall dance, I went into character.

I go out and play not for the numbers, but for a chance to win and the thrill of playing in front of a packed crowd.

Tonight we had our chances but we ran out of talent.

If we go out there and do our best every game, then I will take my chances that the results will be more good than bad.

When you have a chance to take the ball for the world champs, you take the ball.

When you have a chance to be an artist with an audience in your lifetime, you have to say thanks to your audience. That's a great thing. That's the best thing that can happen to an artist.

I'm afraid there are no replays or second chances in amateur or professional golf, and that's the way it should be.

'The Christmas Song,' by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I've never sung it, because Nat's version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.

... the student skit at Christmas contained a plaintive line: "Give us Master's exams that our faculty can pass, or give us a faculty that can pass our Master's exams."

George Brett could roll out of bed on Christmas morning and hit a line drive.

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.

I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.