Quotes About Performance

Like De Niro. He's one of the best character actors we have ever had.

There are people who do De Niro and Walken impersonations.

For us, there is no such thing as failure. You can't miss a deadline; you can't come up short on an assignment. You have to perform, period.

Television is all about deadlines.

I can go 0-for-5, I can go 5-for-5, I'm going to be the same guy. I'm a happy guy, people have to deal with it.

You're always dealing with emotions as an actor.

When you are playing someone who is dealing with issues on a really personal level, if you don't bring your own issues into the equation, it's not going to feel really personal to the people watching it.

If I can make people forget whatever they're dealing with for an hour and a half, two hours every night, that's nice.

Whether the theater is 1,000 seats or 500 seats or 200 seats, you have to make sure the person in the back of the theater can hear you and understand you. So there's a lot of articulation and a lot of voice in theater that really just isn't necessary when it comes to dealing with the camera.

I know the Cubs don't typically do six- or seven-year deals, but I think there are obviously times when there should be exceptions. I think I've done pretty well here.

Trump is no good at deals and never has been.

Not that I'm some rocker, but what I do in a show is probably far more aggressive than what Dean Martin or Bobby Darin ever did.

I think people were just seriously happy to find a funny woman who does comedy like a man. Because I learned how to do comedy from guys, from watching those Dean Martin roasts years ago.

Dean Martin. He was incredible.

Mohan No Masalo' is a play very dear to me.

Anything can go wrong in a debate, and Obama is not a perfect debater.

There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.

A debate is a very specific kind of performance.

I play piano, a little Gershwin, before debates.

'Sanam Teri Kasam' is definitely my best Bollywood debut.

It's easier to debut in a game than make a comeback, because in the latter, people know you and expect something from you. When you're playing your first match, they're just excited and don't know what you're capable of.

When I made my debut as an actor in 'Rock On!' I was confident to get in front of the camera.

'Punda' marks my entry into Kannada and 'Krishnaleelai' will be my Tamil debut. It was a good experience shooting for both the films.

The magnitude of being able to make my Broadway debut as SpongeBob in 'SpongeBob SquarePants' really only started to hit me when we took it out of town.