Quotes About Performance

For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men!

When I go on the road now, which is less than before, but still more than I'd like to, I think of myself primarily as a singer. Not a songwriter, not a celebrity, just a man who likes to sing.

My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

Actors are con men and con men are actors.

I almost broke my coccyx on 'The Wolf Man,' and I banged my head once. I had to fall really hard.

There's only one Mark McGwire. The man walked over 160 times. Just think. If he walks 60 times, he might hit 100 homers.

If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.

A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.

We all have a cross-gender character: Every woman has a man that they can play, and every man has a woman that they can play.

That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame.

We'll only really know we've succeeded when a mediocre woman does as well as a mediocre man. You shouldn't have to be extraordinary. That's the point!

Hey man! I'm a comedian but I'm not a clown.

I might not be able to hold my drink or my man, but what I can hold, is a tune. Point me in the right direction and give me a bloody mic.

When I train against men, I always find that I push myself harder to my absolute maximum.

The ultimate high: A man's abilities equaling his opinion of'em.

How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

I've decided to just keep doing Oh, Hello, where I play an older man who thinks he's very cultured. That clearly has not gone away.

Really, more than anything, The 2000 Year Old Man is a huge influence on all of our comedy, but specifically the live version of Oh, Hello.

I'm not much of a song-and-dance man.

I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.

If you could call me buff, my version of buff was when I finished that film [Swiss Army Man].