Quotes About Performance

It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way.

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

No artist wants to stumble, certainly not in front of their audience, but sometimes that's what it takes

Every time you make any sort of change to your ads, you must track the results.

One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.

In short, companies that achieve a high return on capital are likely to have a special advantage of some kind. That special advantage keeps competitors from destroying the ability to earn above-average profits.

companies that achieve a high return on capital are likely to have a special advantage of some kind. That special advantage keeps competitors from destroying the ability to earn above-average profits.

When thinking about risk, rather than making things unnecessarily complicated, there are really two main things you should want to know about an investment strategy: 1. What is the risk of losing money following that strategy over the long term? 2. What is the risk that your chosen strategy will perform worse than alternative strategies over the long term?

Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.

After an hour the score was: Quancita—34 Radiz—51 Sally—froglegs Perla—9 and 21 Me— hoo-hoo-hooo

You're not going to qualify as a son when you perform well enough.

I've grown to think that keeping your desk clean is actually probably a sign that you're not being effective.

If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business.

People are not motivated by the bottom line. It's about the human factor—and purpose is the driver. It's what stirs our souls and inspires us to do great things over a sustained period of time." Capitalism for these organizations capitalizes on human enterprise, not performance metrics. On people, not consumers. On relationships, not transactions. And on becoming the best company for the planet, not just on the planet.

minor magics meant to amuse and entertain.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

The deed is everything, the glory naught.

The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

The world has always been the same - An endless farce, an antic game, A universal masquerade!

Wagner: Ich hab es öfters rühmen hören, Ein Komödiant könnt einen Pfarrer lehren. Faust: Ja, wenn der Pfarrer ein Komödiant ist; Wie das denn wohl zuzeiten kommen mag.