I didn’t like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions – the curtain was up.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of ‚em and I could deliver with the best of ‚em.

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

It’s much more fun to play something you’re nothing like than what you are… It’s much easier to hide yourself in a character.

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

I never wanted to perform and never proclaimed myself to be a performer.

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

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

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

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

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.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

When you’re in comedy, people always come up and say, ‚Oh, it must be so hard.‘ It really isn’t hard unless you’re not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

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

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious – even with new players. You can’t, say, sell him, get a new one.

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 are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

Oh yes. I’m an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

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

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

Acting is happy agony.

There’s a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What’s the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it’s exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That’s really cool. That’s the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

I want to consistently play well and win titles. I’m only at the beginning.

Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument – learning to do your craft – that’s the most important thing! It’s not about what goes on in a computer!

I think ‚Invisible‘ is a great song, but I don’t know how accessible it is.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.

At Real, psychological pressure on the players is much more serious than at United. This is good. At many clubs, you don’t know the consequence of playing badly.

I’m not a playwright.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

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.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

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.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

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

My success rate speaks for itself.

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

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you’ll see you had to be sharp onstage.

When I was performing the songs on ‚Kiss Land,‘ it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There’s maybe two choruses on all of ‚Kiss Land.‘

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

I’ve taken so many kids out of Pittsburgh and onto the great white way in New York City right into a Broadway show.

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.

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

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.

I played Othello, but I didn’t sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn’t do me any good.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.