Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

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 This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

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.

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

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.

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

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

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

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

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

I don’t want to use my creative energy on somebody else’s user interface.

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

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

I was acting when I was playing baseball.

I can’t act!

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

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.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

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

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!‘

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

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 have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn’t be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.

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

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

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

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.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

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.

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 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.

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

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

Frank Lloyd Wright… his things were beautiful but not very functional.

My name can’t be that tough to pronounce!

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

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

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

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

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

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

Lettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.

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

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.