Quotes About Performance

Working out and working as an actor have gone hand in hand—I always feel more prepared if I know I have done a workout. It gives me confidence—and peace of mind.

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

And, indeed, what little of beauty and peace is to be found in the societies of men is owing to the daily performance of small duties, not to big doings and fine talk.

I can't believe I did a peace sign on TV - like Ringo Starr!

I don't rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers.

I'm passionate about nature and the respect, peace, and beauty I derive from it. My voice, my live performance, and when I'm in the studio. My children and love.

We were on stage. We were supposed to speak our dialogues. But at times, a smile says more than words ever can!

Cats of good breed hunt better fat than lean.

After all, it's what we've done that makes us what we are.

Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.

I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses Can't define how I be dropping these mockeries. Lyrically perform armed robbery, Flee with the lottery, possibly they spotted me.

My pitching philosophy is simple - keep the ball way from the bat.

Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. -- Dogbert's Motto

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.

When you're coming up with your philosophy and approach to performing comedy, you take special note of the things you disagree with as much as the things you agree with.

The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.

The way I pitch is the way I pitch. I'm not going to change my overall philosophy. I'll just go out and pitch.

I think we all have a similar philosophy about comedy and comic performance which is that it's at its best when you can see the pleasure the performer has, when you can see a glimmer in the eye.

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

The point wasn't always to do what you want. The point was to do what you did and to do it well.

Talking is nothing. Doing is something.

People will bow down in front of your result not in front of you.

Life is about execution rather than purpose.