Quotes About Performance

I once said a poet has the right to sing as loudly and vocally as he wants to. Most poets should face a rock n' roll audience for one night to keep them honest.

In the early days of the Libertines, we used to put on Arcadian cabaret nights. There'd be some girl climbing out of an egg; we'd try and get a couple of mates to tell a few jokes, performance poets, and then we'd play in the middle of it all. More people were on stage than in the crowd.

Adrian Neville, who's my best friend, I rode with him on the road. He was the most crisp, athletic, poignant guy - never missed a step. It was insane. I had never seen anybody who could move in a wrestling ring like him; it was like second-nature to him. Flips - name it - agile jumping in and out of the ring effortlessly to the top rope like crazy.

'Baskets' is incredible - 'Baskets' is so funny and poignant and sad and dark.

That's how life is. All eyes on you, and all things point to you. Once things don't go well, fingers going to point.

The next point - that's all you must think about.

A point guard can carry a team - if he has all the right stuff.

On the court, I want to try and get to the free-throw line a little more. And as a point guard, you can always get better at your decision-making and limiting your mistakes.

I know I can play point guard.

I feel like I can play point guard for any team in the league and average a double-double.

When you're a point guard, man, if you're not up to par, you're in a lot of trouble.

I was just taught, the team goes how the point guard goes.

There's always a good point guard in this league.

I think a lot of the time, when things were going wrong, I would get blamed for things because I was the point guard.

From my point of view, there is a lot of joy in stage work.

My dream is not Hollywood, but to perform my act in English to 30 people in a Soho comedy club, to show New Yorkers what they look like from the French point of view.

Scoring goals is scoring goals. From a striker's point of view, the aim is the same.

My job as an actor is to just tell the story as best I can from my character's point of view and let the audience decide.

As an actor, you can have your opinions, but our responsibility is telling the point of view of this one character.

When I go out onto the pitch, I don't do so thinking about objectives or the need to win. I think about enjoying it, but from a point of view of responsibility and of giving your all.

From an England point of view they have put money into white-ball cricket because our performances in World Cups has not been good enough, I understand the reasons for that. But we have to be careful not to go too one-day, we have to find a balance because there is such a legacy of Test cricket in this country and we can't lose that.

I've been a club manager myself and know the demands and, from a selfish point of view, you want your players to be fit every week.

And then modelling, because it pays you really well and you get to travel, I was forced to get used to the idea of standing in front of a camera and having six or seven people watching me and that actually allowed me to loosen up from an acting point of view.

Onstage, even though you're here together with the other actor, face-to-face, playing out the scene, you also have that other ear pointed out toward the audience and how they're listening. That informs a lot.