Quotes About Performance

Making it look easy is the hardest thing in the world to do.

My feet have been my best friend for the last 40 years. I've just been a dancing fool on stage, and after awhile you just kind of wear them out.

To others we are not ourselves but a performer in their lives cast for a part we do not even know that we are playing.

I don't think I was fully satisfied acting. You know, the girlfriend role or the best friend role, and that wasn't enough for me.

You think you're funny! You think you're funny Cena, huh? The only pose you're going to be doing tonight is lying on your back with me on top!

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.

To me, crying is not a sign of weakness. She wants it that bad and she puts her whole heart into it. She had really high expectations, and that's why she's so good. She just had a bad game.

Well, when you're playing good football, it's good football and if you don't have good football, then you're not really playing good football.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.

At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

Mick Jagger is in better shape than far too many NBA players. It's up in the air whether the same can be said of Keith Richards.

Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.

I moved to New York to do theater, and I got cast in a play that was funny, and then I was the funny guy. I did a movie that was funny, and then I was the funny guy.

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit.

Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

Golf's a funny game. You can be playing poorly and then go and win a tournament.

An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling.

Comediennes are the lucky ones, because if you're funny, you can be 125 years old and they will still accept you.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Hockey s a funny game. You have to prove yourself every shift, every game. It's not up to anybody else. You have to take pride in yourself.

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing.