Quotes About Performance

Singles hitters drive Fords. Home-run hitters drive Cadillacs.

The majority of people perform well in a crisis and when the spotlight is on them; it's on the Sunday afternoons of this life, when nobody is looking, that the spirit falters.

We overload in our workouts so that the game slows down in real life. It helps you become a smarter basketball player.

Every night I play as if my life depends on it.

I don't feel I need to come and drive the race of Lewis Hamilton's life. I think I've driven pretty well this year and I plan to drive Lewis Hamilton's best this weekend.

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.

What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.

I've been dealing with politicians all my life. They are all talk, no action.

To my mind, the actor has this great responsability of playing another human being… it's like taking on another person's life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.

I was never a very dependable employee for anything. Perfect for the actor's life!

I never give any character I play less respect than I give my own life.

Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.

I need that on stage. I need a burst of life. That's entertainment for me.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.

Life is boring. The weather is boring. Actors must not be boring.

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

I've been given lots of great advice, in my life. As an actor, just being as honest and as present as you can be.

Don't worry about looking good - worry about achieving your goals.

A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life.

Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.

I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

The biggest hit of my life is Agneepath. My second is Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and the third biggest hit is Dhoom 2