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

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

If you watch any good player, they’re using different parts of their body and working with instruments that respond to those movements. They’re moving in many dimensions at once.

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.

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.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

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.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

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

My whole life is a theater piece.

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.

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

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

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

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

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.

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.

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

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

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

I can’t act!

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

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

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.

Endorsements are a reward for good performance on the field, and the commitments made after signing them need to be done.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

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.

For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.

Playing Etta James in the movie ‚Cadillac Records‘ really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It’s no fun being safe.

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.

It’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

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

I play a nobody in Japan.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

Actors know, with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right. So they come with their full bag of tricks.

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 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.

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

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

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.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

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.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it’s my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

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

When I was at school, I used to stay on a balcony singing and people would stand around listening.

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

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

The bat is not a toy, it’s a weapon. It gives me everything in life, which helps me to do everything on the field.

Stand-up is hard.

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