Quotes About Performance

The most memorable night of The Judy Garland Show for me was the night my mother pulled me out of the audience and sang to me onstage.

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

We're blessed on 'How I Met Your Mother' to feel like we're doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday.

I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.'

I guess I was an early method actress. I would go to a quiet part of the sound stage with my mother. I wouldn't think of anything sad, I would just make my mind a blank. In a minute I could cry.

My mother always told me before shows to stand up and show them whose little boy you are.

I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.

I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.

A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.

When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

If you have a body, you are an athlete!

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple.

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.

It is amazing how many drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down.

When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

No one rises to low expectations

Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top.

I ain't a rapper; I'm a motivational speaker. I don't do shows; I do seminars. I really talk to people.

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.