Quotes About Performance

It's like getting the Williams sisters to play (tennis) against a man, and they're far better athletes than she (Sorenstam) is.

The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room.

Fiddling knobs, touching keys, having fun with a full grown man.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

At this club, all I see is great backing all the way down for me and I will be judged on results like the next man. (on being Manchester City manager)

A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell.

As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what was going on.

I'd like to be a song and dance man.

The only way to find the best actor would be to let everybody play Hamlet and let the best man win.

Desire, and the ways in which men perform their masculinity and feel as if they can take up space and say anything about your body, have always been a dangerous space for me.

A man will reveal his true self, or so it seems, on the tennis court.

I'd like to get to the point where I can be just as mediocre as a man

When I do stand-up, I'm basically doing a one-man show.

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

The straight man has to know to relate to the comic. When I think of the great comedy teams, I think of Martin & Lewis, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello.

To play in the men's tournaments I have to keep getting stronger and get more distance

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel

We don't have a lot of men on stage doing flamboyant or theatrical. We have a lot of female pop stars doing it, but where are the guys? Where's the classic pop-rock showman?

You should really treat stand-up like you would a play. It's a one-man play.

Two grand slams in a week - man, that's seven or eight ribbies right there.