Quotes About Performance

You get to act for a living. You're fortunate. So act like it.

I've done a lot of Broadway plays, and I'm fortunate they've all been so successful.

Every show is different. The public has always been nice to me. I'm fortunate that way.

I'm not yet fortunate enough to take only the scripts that capture my fancy, but each one has to be a new experience, to put me in a light that audiences haven't necessarily seen me before.

I have developed my own brand of acting, and fortunately, people like it.

Fortunately I'm Latin, and I'm born with a little bit of rhythm by default. It's in the DNA. I have that going for me, but I've never been considered one of the world's greatest dancers.

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball!

I found that I could make people laugh doing people like Shirley Bassey. Fortunately it worked.

I play every show like it's my last. Fortunately, that's never turned out to be the case.

Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.

I have no way of knowing why my career has lasted so long other than the fact that people like the sound of my voice. Fortunately, I've been able to maintain it.

Candidates are up one day, down the other. Candidates' fortunes turn on a dime. They can be determined by a good or bad debate performance.

I think something that every actor wants, whether they've done four movies or forty movies, is they want to find the work interesting. You want to come to work and think this is going to be a challenge.

When I first fought in the U.S., the size of the crowd was something I was not used to seeing, but you get used to it.

I've fought on some big cards. I've fought in some big arenas, on televised cards, pay-per-view cards, whatever.

I fought on the undercard of a show headlined by Ricky Hatton and Floyd Mayweather Jr. There was almost no one in the arena then. But when Hatton and Mayweather came out, every seat was filled. There had to be 16,000 or 17,000 people in there. The place was going crazy.

Even in my first year in the UFC I fought five times in the year.

I've fought in London. I've fought in Los Angeles. I've fought in New York.

Any of the shows I've ever fought on, they always want to have me back because I always have the fight of the night performance.

I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.

I've never found acting that difficult.

The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

Stand-up is the foundation to my career. It's what I started out doing.

I want the type of career where I can come back to theater. Theater is my home. Theater, to me, is like ballet for dancers. It's my foundation.