Quotes About Performance

I regretted not being a person in shape many a day while we were making this film [Swiss Army Man].

Man, there's a lot of pressure when you put on that Kansas uniform with the high expectations everyone has.

We live in a world that needs entertainment. And that entertainment has to be provided by men who sweat and bleed.

An employer has no business with a man's personality... The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

Some athletes are super fashionable and not good. It's like c'mon man focus on your craft, be who you're supposed to be and then go put on the clothes.

I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.

Mick Jagger, the greatest of all front men I've ever met in my life.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.

I started as a musician, then I was a singer. I sang with the band. Then I was an actor in the theater, TV, films. But I guess I am a song and dance man. It's at the heart of everything I do.

If your record doesn't sell that well, man, who cares? All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.

I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy.

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform.

I'm a big Brad Pitt fan. He's really talented. I think a lot of men are intimidated by him, saying he's just a pretty boy or whatever, but he is a bad man. I think he can act.

You want your lady to be a contortionist. What man wouldn't want a lady who's a contortionist?

Over the first three rounds you're playing the course. In the final round, if you're in contention, you're playing the man.

I've always been a clown trapped in a leading man's body.

I take the stage as a man in his fifties and walk off the stage like a man in his twenties.

The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now. I will be in it, if I'm the best man for the job, but it really is about creating characters and shows.

If you were an actor, anybody could go on Broadway and take a George Carlin hour and do it on stage as a one man show. They're all stand alone essays.

I'd like to do plays, maybe a one man show.

Listen to me: a family man is never a real family man. An assassin is never entirely assassin. They play a role, you understand. While a dead man, he is really dead. To be or not to be, right?

I don't really think there's much difference between a character actor and a leading man besides aesthetics.