Quotes About Performance

I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

I suppose it is because woman's courage is mental and man's physical, that in times of great strain women always make the better showing.

Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

A football team is like a piano; you need eight men to carry it and three who can play the damn thing The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.

I think it's good for an actor to bounce between stuff on camera and stuff in theatre. If I could do half and half every year I would be a very, very happy man.

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

Sid Vicious is a thinking man's wrestler!

It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.

I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.

We sort of expect to see men in women's clothes. It's part of our culture. The key thing is, it has to be done quite badly.

An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.

I did Shakespeare in college and the nerves I got doing Shakespeare are the same nerves I get doing 'Mad Men.'

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

When I'm up there, and I know the show's coming to a close, in my head I'm saying to myself, Oh man, you gotta get off and be a normal person again. That's what I don't like so much.

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge.

He's written some great songs. I thought that "Blues Man" was a perfect song for me to do as a tribute.

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor.

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

Give a man a clear-cut job and let him do it.

Hitters get paid a lot of money to hit. Let's face it, man, sometimes they just do.

I think life on the road really suits very egotistical men. It's set up for kings.

I mean, before this, I would have said playing Bill Gates, because I'm playing someone obviously who is alive and is the richest man in the world. That was a heavy responsibility.

There is no such thing as a lousy job - only lousy men who don't care to do it.