Quotes about Performance

I did 'My Fair Lady' for almost 3 1/2 years, eight performances a week. It was a marathon.

The guys who play in midfield and up front are the ones who decide games.

As a bowler our job is to create doubts in the minds of the batsmen.

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

Early on, someone had told me, 'You know, the camera can always tell when you're lying.' And, Jesus, that intimidated me. 'The camera can always tell? How am I going to do this?' Until one day I thought, 'Wait a minute, acting is lying. Acting is all about lying.'

The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.

If faith without works is dead, willingness without action is fantasy.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from.