Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

If you look at me in ‚Ride Along,‘ even though I’m playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.

Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Computers double their performance every month.

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.

I have so many designs and video ideas and lyrics in my head, so I always try to be productive.

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

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

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

True politeness consists in being easy one’s self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

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

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.

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

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

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.

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

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.

The complexity of things – the things within things – just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

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

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.

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.‘

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

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.

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.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works.

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

Stand-up is my baby.

Acting is happy agony.

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

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

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.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

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

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

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.

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‘.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

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.

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.

I can’t act!

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.

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

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

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.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.