Quotes About Performance

When guys feel like it's a contract year so you're forcing, you're stressing, you're trying to do that, what I try to tell them is GMs and scouts don't even look at your points per game. They look at your efficiency, your plus-minus. Everything's so analytical. You can average 15 and be a terrible analytic player - you're not going to get paid.

I try not to forecast the future and look down the road as far as my wrestling, because it's there. All I have to do is walk in a ring and light up the crowd.

People like to be moved, that's why they're here listening to you instead of sitting at home with the Shipping Forecast.

To actually be able to live out my dream and be in the WWE, be in the cruiserweight division, have the opportunity bring it to the forefront and show the WWE universe what we're about, there's no better feeling in the world.

Movement is very important to a character, no matter what period you're working in. So when it came to playing Emma Jung and lacing up in the corset, it was really not a foreign thing for me.

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing.

I don't think I've ever done a real mini-series, but I love doing film first and foremost.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

I've always considered myself an actor first and foremost.

Well, I'm... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

I return to the stage first and foremost because I'm an actor, and I love it.

You see what type of player I am, and you see a lot of that in leaders. Hopefully, you lead from the front and, first and foremost, play well.

The first and foremost criterion for me when selecting a film is the character I am playing, and then the director.

First and foremost, I want to play well.

The music has always been the first and foremost element in our career.

I am a singer, first and foremost, but the medium happens to be the cello.

I'm a musician, first and foremost.

First and foremost I'm a batsman in the side and that's my job, to score runs.

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.

Acting, for me, is a process of metamorphosis. It's about forgetting who I am and becoming someone entirely new.

I need to know who the audience are in any particular play. It's no good forgetting that they're there.