Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

I’ve got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I’ve done it.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven’t been made easier technically.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

If my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.

‚Leading man‘ just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

I’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, ‚You’re Gaga‘.

Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

A chorus is not easy.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

If it’s hard to remember, it’ll be difficult to forget.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

I’ve always had to conquer fear when I’m on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It’s absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I’m okay. It’s like I’m out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

There’s been a lot of talk of me being a one-man show but that’s simply not the case. We win games when I score 40 points and we’ve won when I score 10.

I play a nobody in Japan.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

My success rate speaks for itself.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

I was honoured when they asked me to appear at the president’s birthday rally in Madison Square Garden. There was like a hush over the whole place when I came on to sing ‚Happy Birthday,‘ like if I had been wearing a slip, I would have thought it was showing or something. I thought, ‚Oh, my gosh, what if no sound comes out!‘

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

You think I’m going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

I’ve proved to be as difficult to convert as I am to hypnotize.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can’t really measure degrees of difficulty.

I’m not a photographer, so I didn’t get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That’s the world that I’m moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

On the field, aggression can sometimes be a positive emotion. It boosts performance and can lift your game. But over the years, I have learnt that restrained aggression is a better animal. That way, you will conserve your energy and won’t spend yourself quickly.

The thing that makes my clothes really different is that, number one, they are really great designs; they’re not tacky; they are very professional; the design is made from lots of decisions.

The artist in me cries out for design.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

I love eating chocolate cake and ice cream after a show. I almost justify it in my mind as, ‚You were a good boy onstage and you did your show, so now you can have some cake and ice cream.‘

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

When you are in good form, you keep hitting the target. You may have the best match but you may still not have the goals. But scoring is most important and it feels so good that I have been knocking them in. It really boosts the morale.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.