Quotes About Performance

All I really had was my talent. Without that I wouldn't be welcome at the White House.

There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.

There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.

Football is football, and there are some pretty good players that have come out of the FCS and did well against bigger competition.

Pretty Woman was the easiest job I've ever done. I just wore the right toupee.

Toughening up, performing masculinity, pretending to enjoy things I didn't enjoy all enabled me to dodge the gender policing of the adults around me. But the way I really was - the swished hips, the Double-Dutching, the hair flips - seemed to always prevail and attract Dad's disdain.

Sometimes in football, the best team does not necessarily win; it's the team that plays best on the day that prevails.

Technology is improving to prevent musicians from losing their hearing while performing on stage... audience members losing their hearing from listening to loud music... people being able to experience music not just with their ears, but with touch or with through their eyes.

If practice and preparation were all it took to prevent nerves on the course, tour players would never get rattled.

If I'm blocking shots or changing shots or even preventing players from taking shots, I'm helping the team and we are likely to win when our defense is playing well.

It's not that I don't like starring as the hero, it's more of a mental block that prevents me from doing so.

I think it's all right for an actor to appear on television as a guest maybe three or four times a year. Perhaps to preview a future movie or a play.

All I need to worry about is have I done better than my previous film or not.

At the start of every game, you are focussed on the game you are playing, so you don't look back at previous games.

You're as good as your next game, not your previous, so I'll focus on the next one.

Replacing someone who has scored more than 30 goals in the previous season is not easy.

Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

I will entertain anything; it doesn't matter. You know, it's not obviously about the price, it's not about who, it's kind of about when and what. It's material, that's all.

For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.

As a defender, we take pride in getting clean sheets.

I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.

Being in my best shape, my conditioning, it's something I pride myself in.

To be the key player in creating and scoring goals, that's what I take pride in, and the thing I know how to do best.

I think you always take pride in how you play.