Quotes About Performance

I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it.

It takes a minute to get use to the TV thing, and I have so much more respect for TV actors now.

I am rather what we usually call a Pop pianist with my own romantic style.

She glanced at the other diners, all of them going into their act, and thought is this what it all boils down to? Romantic love, is this all it is, a talent show?

I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.

I had to kiss Ruthie Henshall once with a cold. It was the final romantic moment in She Loves Me; as we separated, I noticed this arc of glistening mucus threaded between us.

Of course, it's a great joy to be able to perform. And that love affair with an audience, where you give love and they give love back - it's a romantic situation.

For a woman to be taken as seriously as a man she must be three times as effective. Happily, this is not difficult.--Simone de Beauvoir

Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor we do not remember him in it.

The sad thing about doping is how much it obscures our appreciation of greatness.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

I am sad, sad as a circus-lioness.

There was a day when you could identify a NASCAR Ford, Chevrolet, or Dodge and they actually looked like "stock cars." Now they are pod machines, slick on the outside but still powered by the same Neanderthal carbureted pushrod V-8s that have been under their hoods for half a century. If this is real auto racing, then the WWF ought to be part of the Olympics.

You can't think and hit at the same time

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical

Half the game is 90% mental.

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats.

How can you think and hit at the same time?

I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

Baseball is 90 mental, the other half is physical.

Slump I ain't in no slump... I just ain't hitting.

75% of baseball is mental the other half is phisical

Ninety percent of baseball is mental, the other half is physical.

Sports are 90% mental, and the other half is physical