Quotes About Performance

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.

The dog is dressed just like me at the climax of my act.

You can't win a game if you don't score any points.

Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.

I liked getting the best villain award. I thought that was funny.

I think, in comedy, timing is everything. You and I could tell the same joke, but if one of our timing is off, it won't be as funny. You've gotta know when to deliver your punch-lines.

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

Sometimes they laugh at things I don't think are funny, but I believe if they're laughing at me, it's a good show.

Jean Alesi is 4th and 5th.

I don't really tell a joke, I react to situations. The whole thing is just looking at somebody and showing all our weaknesses and exaggerating them, and that's how it becomes funny.

I'm funny. I'm a comedian. I'm not a clown.

I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70,000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

As you look at the first four, the significant thing is that Alboreto is fifth.

I have to tell you I enjoy Jon Stewart. That's the truth. I actually think he's very funny. I've paid to see him do his stand-up routine.

I did a gig in the U.S. once for the homeless. I said 'It's nice to see so many bums on seats.'

There are few lonelier sights than a good comedian being funny in a movie that doesn't know what funny is.

Gene Wilder often said that his job as an actor wasn't to make something funny but to make it real.

A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.

It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera.

It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.

It's funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.