Quotes About Performance

I try not to eat too much, but I always get hungry before a match. I make sure I have enough fuel in my body. I'll eat pasta and a little bit of protein usually. I'm pretty much eating a full meal.

To me, protesting and playing music go hand in hand.

To me, 'Educating Rita' is the most perfect performance I could give of a character who was as far away from me as you could possibly get and of all the films I have ever been in, I think it may be the one I am most proud of.

I'm proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that's not good.

I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

Even after your fight on the night, you have loads of media you have to do and people expecting stuff from you and you want to make everyone proud. So afterwards I take three or four days off and I just want to eat and eat and eat.

Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it.

The U.K. crowds always have a lot of energy, and I've done some milestone shows there that I'm very proud of.

I've seen every idea. Ideas are irrelevant. You are judged on execution, and the number 1 way to prove that you can execute is by executing.

As a comedian, I'm forced to have a tough skin. Until people laugh, they are detractors. You walk into a new audience where nobody knows you, they go: 'Make us laugh. Show us what you're made of. Prove why we should be listening to you.'

I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily.

That's what great players do: continue to prove themselves.

I want to prove to people that I'm an actor and not just a character.

I have to prove everything on the pitch.

I am keen to prove myself as an actor.

With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before.

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be.

You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.

I have to prove myself in a lot of ways - as an actor, as a person, as someone who can handle pressure.

When we decided to go to Cuba to perform, we did it because we just wanted to build a bridge, you know, between Cuba and the rest of the community. And we just wanted to prove that music and art need to be over all ideology or way to think life, and we just wanted to go in there and play just because of love.

Making fun of guys to get them to perform and prove themselves, that's always going to exist. But we have to equally celebrate them and empower them.

People know what they're getting with me. It's part and parcel of football that people want to see new faces, but all I can do is play games, score goals and prove I can do it. My record is there for everyone to see.