Quotes About Performance

Usually before matches I eat plain pasta with a little bit olive oil, salt, pepper and chicken.

Right before a match, I and many other players, tend to be very clean. Just plain rice or pasta with some chicken maybe, but not too much sauce, to just get some carbohydrates and energy.

It might sound unconvincing when an actor like me who has done 500 films says that television is more competitive than movies, but that is the plain truth.

When you sign up for Team Canada, we look for the best way to do things, plain and simple.

Everybody likes to see a good soft-shoe dance and a song to go with It, but how often do you see It? It's a lost art, just plain hoofing, and I've never heard of anybody who didnt enjoy doing it or watching it.

If you are batting first as an opener, you give yourselves a couple of overs, see what's the wicket behaving, and then try to assess what a good score on that wicket would be, and then you plan accordingly.

I come from the corporate world, where everyone has a five-year plan, but performing arts doesn't work that way; you just kinda do the best job you can with the gig you've got.

I never go into a fight thinking, 'I have to finish this guy' - that's not a part of my game plan. I go out there and fight the way I fight.

You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so boring.

You want to go out there, and you want to be sharp, and you want to execute your game plan and... get it done fast.

My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.

One day I'm riding a bicycle in my neighborhood, the next day I auditioned for Menudo and was on a plane to perform in front of 200,000 people.

Leaving the house is a big enough occasion for me, so getting on a plane and flying across the world and playing to a room full of people is just out of this world.

I see myself as a serious artist, but yeah, when people come to my shows, they want to hear 'What Was I Thinkin',' 'Drunk on a Plane,' and lots of up-tempo, fun songs.

The first time I took a plane to dance in front of an audience outside France was when I was in the Paris Opera Ballet School, and we flew to Japan.

We like to party but to be the best partiers in the world you've gotta be serious, you've gotta plan that stuff out. You've gotta wake up the next day and catch that plane to the next show and perform a great show.

If you're just making people laugh, that can be one-dimensional. You have to bring something artistic into it, so it's working on another plane or is more complex.

If I'm not on stage, I'm a pilot. I like flying planes; I have a little plane back in Nashville.

I make my life with New York stage actors, and I love them. They're the best actors on planet earth.

I like - there's a better word for it, but I like the danger that a comic brings to a role. It has a feeling, even though everything's scripted and everything's planned what you're going to do. When I see Will Ferrell or Sacha Baron Cohen, there's a feeling that anything could happen.

One of my favorite things is when people will ask for a song that I hadn't planned to play. It is really fun to see if you can remember something, and you don't always. I mean, sometimes it's just crash and burn.

Certainly, I seem to need to do a play a year. I feel wrong if I haven't got one planned.

If you ever have a mistake, you try to just kind of forget about it because if you carry that with you for the rest of the routine, then the rest of your routine might not go as planned. So you just kind of shake it off, and you just continue your routine like you didn't fall.

I tell a lot of jokes. Most of the jokes just happen to come; they're not planned jokes. I like when people laugh with me and have fun at the shows.