Quotes About Performance

I started comedy as a hobby, really, and it still doesn't seem like a proper job.

But with 'Newsrevue' I started doing some characters, and I just loved how you were in control. You could write something that day and go and do it that night, rather than waiting for a job that involves other people. So I did character stand-up, and then proper stand-up, and I loved it; I got addicted.

If you don't eat properly, it affects your energy level. You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.

During 'Bullets Over Broadway,' there was a part where we performed the 'play within the play' facing upstage. It was me, Karen Ziemba, Brooks Ashmanskas, and Marin Mazzie. I don't think we got through it properly a single time.

But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.

There won't be any miracles. We never promised any. But as we have said before, when things are done properly, the results come in.

You get yourself prepared for a big game, you get yourself up for it. Then afterwards you don't sleep or eat properly.

That's the most important thing - once you're on the pitch, you need to do your job properly.

In fact, one of the conversations I had with Jason Garrett, you know, sometimes X's and O's get so complicated, and a coach gets so into that that he forgets the most important thing is players win ballgames. Make sure that the players are properly equipped and motivated to do their jobs.

I'm not particularly into people giving me credit. It's not something I think about. It's not important to me. The only thing that's important is if I'm doing my job properly on the pitch for the team and for the manager.

You can't really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There's a lot of jerking.

I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.

I don't think there are really enough meetings in Britain for our athletes to compete properly, and because of this a lot of the talent we have has been stunted.

We can even sing off key, but if it's produced properly it can be a hit.

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.

Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.

The plan is to always start properly and execute a good race.

I think my concerns are the same as every actor. Can I find this character and make it come to life properly?

I took a break so that I can entertain my audience properly.

I feel like if I've written a song about something I haven't experienced, I wouldn't be able to perform it properly, and people would be able to see that. People can see right through that.

Everytime there's an NXT show, people are like, 'Oh, that's the greatest thing I've ever seen.' It's the greatest show on Earth. One of things that they have going for them is the fact they make you wait. They build to it properly. That's a good way to go at this.

I look for a great story. One that I would like to watch, or tell, or that I think needs to be told, because I know that, as an actress, I have a responsibility to tell certain stories and to tell them properly.

Two birdies and a lot of bogeys doesn't really help. I say if you're going to do it, do it properly and be dreadful on all fronts.