Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Whatever I am, it’s natural… I don’t have to pretend to be aggressive, don’t have to show the opposition that I am on the field. Being aggressive comes naturally to me, helps me perform.

In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

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

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

Life is very difficult. One of the most ancient of religious ideas that emerges everywhere, I would say, is that life is essentially suffering.

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.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

It’s easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

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

Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

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

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

I’m not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together. In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it’s the recording or the performance side.

I play a nobody in Japan.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

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

I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.

I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn’t exist without the performance-art element.

You go to a festival, you know you’re not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I’ve made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.

Stand-up is hard.

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.

I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I’ve done for 25 years. I don’t need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

I’ve always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, ‚Hi,‘ that the people ought to get their money’s worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

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

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

Art is to be free. Design is to fix.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

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

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

I can’t act!

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

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

I always said that I wouldn’t use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I’ll hang it up.

I don’t care much for equations myself. This is partly because it is difficult for me to write them down, but mainly because I don’t have an intuitive feeling for equations.

The importance of logo into today’s fashion is un! be! Lievable!

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

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, ‚What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?‘

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‚Oh, you’re playing yourself.‘ I guess it’s kind of a compliment. Or people say, ‚Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.‘ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

My whole life is a theater piece.