Quotes About Performance

I conduct faster so you can see my beat.

Start three bars before something.

I have always been told that I was a funny, entertaining person and have always been told to give comedy a try.

When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices to make it more entertaining.

A lot of people who claim they're political comedians are just comedians who have opinions. But they stop being funny the minute they give their opinions.

The hardest part, for real, is probably when you just don't feel like going on stage and being funny.

He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.

There are many different ways of being funny. I'm not sure that there's so many different ways of being dramatic.

The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.

Always warm up the audience with a joke....If you are not a particularly funny person, make sure that you inform them that it's a joke.

I always found it really funny when actors would come offstage, smoking cigarettes and swearing at each other.

I think that you can make a drama and have it be intensely funny, and vice versa.

Like backstage, I just peed like every 3 seconds. I think yur staff thinks I have diarrhea.

DeShaies is like a clock out there. Every other pitch goes one way or the other.

Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.

Jesus Alou is in the on-deck circus.

Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

Right now Andy Larkin is pitching just like young Andy Larkin.

The Padres are really swinging some hot hats tonight!

When I read a script, I have to see the funny, and if I can see it's funny, it helps me to be able to transmit that.

For me, mood is something you have to ignore. I try to put myself in that position when I'm shooting and try to react the way I would. I try not to play funny if it doesn't call for that.

Officials at the London Olympics will be conducting 5,000 tests for steroids. Or as Lance Armstrong calls that, 'a Monday.'

Manchester United are looking to Frank Stapleton to pull some magic out of the fire.

What's funny is that male strippers don't wear thongs anymore. They wear flat backs.