Quotes About Performance

I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.

Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age, When no man dies for love, but on the stage.

Men... performed better when they understood why they were being asked to carry out a task.

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

In America, they do not inquire of a stranger, "What is he?" but, "What can he do?"

I want to be on stage and perform and win Grammys and help out my family in Bulgaria, because they are struggling, and my mom and dad, too.

[On turning down an invitation to appear for four minutes on the Ed Sullivan Show:] Honey, it takes Moms four minutes just to get on the stage.

I would mimic what I saw in Grease and Guys and Dolls in front of my mom's mirror and I would practice voices and songs. When you put me alone in a room, that's what I would do.

You didn't want to bring home anything but an A or a B. To my mom, a C was like an F.

Whether you are a stay-at-home mom, or on the red carpet, or in Afghanistan, the better you feel, the better you do your job.

Theater is the only thing I always came back to. When I was 9, I asked my mom if I could be on TV. She was like, "Well, okay. You can try."

As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good.

I grew up in the theater with my mom and that's how I knew I wanted to be an actor in the first place.

The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.

I had this alter ego where I would go to the theater with mom. I wasn't embarrassed by it; it was separate for me.

My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.

I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high school.

It is not just about the money, it is about what you achieve on the pitch.

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

Putts get real difficult the day they hand out the money.

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

We find worth in jobs, money, & performance so we can hide how worthless we feel inside. Acknowledge the pain to be healed.

Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays.