Quotes About Performance

Everyone wants to criticize my mechanics, but maybe I've got good mechanics that make the ball go up.

I know how everybody criticizes everybody else in this business.

In football, you can't always play well, and sometimes there will be criticism. Sometimes when I get a lot, it helps me. It makes me work even harder to improve and make the critics a little more positive.

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

I'm a people's actor, not a critics' actor, and I always have been.

All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.

I don't really think about the critics or the commercial success.

I'm my own worst critic. I could tell the critics a thing or two about my shows.

More often than not, theatre critics bubble with enthusiasm about plays that are, when all is said and done, really pretty average.

As an actor, you've got to have faith in the director's vision, that the director has a vision for this that is greater than the critics say.

I don't mean to be oily, but critics are very much part of the theatre.

I certainly don't stay out of the sun, and I also don't, as some of my critics have said, put on blackface as a performance.

I just think that playing in a championship game and playing in every game in March Madness, that's just more time for critics to watch you and more time for them to nitpick at what you don't do well or what they feel you don't do well.

There are always going to be critics. But I have got to go out there and do my job.

Football without critics wouldn't be football.

Critics are going to be critics, people are always going to get on your back, but as long as you go out there and do your job, then that's all you can do.

It's difficult sometimes to go and see a show and enjoy it and not go and see a show and critique it.

I have been offered other roles on television but I don't think I'll be able to enact those crooked characters.

There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.

I think, a lot of times when you do a comedy show, people will turn out for a name they know. So, they get excited when they see Patton Oswalt is going to be on the show, but they kind of cross their arms until Patton Oswalt shows up.

I grew up going to rock shows, and the lines of rock n' roll cross over with wrestling so much.

If the fans want to enjoy watching me fight, enjoy me with my love for fighting, it's fine. But if they don't, it don't cross my mind. If the fans still love me, I can put on good shows for them.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

Doing DJ sets is like - is difficult to me. Cause you have to find that happy medium of playing what the crowd wants and what you want.