Quotes About Performance

I loved my roles in 'Veer-Zaara,' 'Train To Pakistan' and 'Shaheed-e-Mohabbat.'

Afridi has been a wonderful player for Pakistan.

If you can't field you can't play for Pakistan. It's as simple as that.

Playing against Pakistan automatically motivates our team to perform well.

When I'm still the manager of Palace, I will give 100 percent.

Coming to Crystal Palace, I'm really excited to be playing. There's still massive competition here.

I am the Crystal Palace DJ. I'm the guy who gets us going. I play the songs.

At Palace, I feel like a first-team player, and I have got the opportunity to play every week.

Our first ever live gig was in front of Buckingham Palace, an Olympic event attended by some of the royal family, and we had to follow James Brown.

I like to use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.

Doing theater, I call it concentrated shampoo. You put a dime in the palm of your hand and you get a headful of lather. When you do a play, you're there for two and a half hours, and you live a lifetime.

If I could palm a ball I probably could have more dunks than I have in my career, but I still can get the job done.

In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.

Any actor I admire and enjoy working with - Sergi Lopez as the bad guy in 'Pan's Labyrinth,' or the little girl who played young Mako in 'Pacific Rim,' it makes no difference - I like actors with a very strong centre.

I was in musical comedy. And I did very well, but the memorization killed me. I'm not good at memorizing, and it gave me a lot of anxiety. I hated the makeup. I hated all that pancake makeup. I didn't really like dressing for parts.

The Pandora's box of unholiness is attempting to sing anything that Freddie Mercury ever sang.

If you get the chance to be a Bourke Street busker, you actually have to do an audition in front of a council panel. You get a roster every week that has your busking shifts on it - I'm serious: it's an actual job.

There aren't many opportunities to be a comedian on TV anymore, it's a lot of panel shows. You don't get much stand-up.

I like being on stage more. That's stress free. Being on the panel is a big responsibility and you need to keep a check on a lot of things.

It's good for actors to confront those things we have to act: panic, pain and death.

Being an impatient guy, even off the field, I would always look to score runs and score them quickly. Sometimes I panic if runs are not coming.

In 'Next to Normal,' I had millions of breakdowns and panic attacks, but nobody ever heard about those.

Actually, what I did, because I couldn't make sense of it, and I have to have lyrics that make sense, I decided the best way to sing 'I Have Confidence' was to go completely nuts with panic and fear.