Constant Performance Quotes

I've always felt you are only as good as your next album or next show. What you've done is done. When you get a gold record, you hang it on the wall, and then it's like, 'Yeah, next?'

My thing is I'm always concerned about my kids and their bodies holding up in the industry. We don't have time off. They run 365 days a year and gone all the time and performing every night. I'm kind of leaning for them to go to Hollywood.

I feel like I'm always performing in Vegas around Christmastime.

You can't take a night off in the NBA.

We're on the road 300 days a year. There's no recovery time. It's a test of your physical and mental endurance.

My big fear is that if I act the way I am, people will notice that there is nothing to see. So I have to be active all the time, covering up.

It is no longer enough to play very well. You need to be able to give an answer at all times and everywhere. You cannot hide. This has something to do with maturity, and that is something you only acquire over the years.

People expect you to be doing something cool all the time. In a normal life, that's not happening!

When you're an experienced celeb - which I am - you sometimes just need a bit of space, when you're not 'on'. I'm always on!

I have to bring my A-Game 24/7, between creating, draping, and overseeing a myriad of different brands.

The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.

I think it sort of dawns on you that if you're not gigging constantly you're not actually relevant. You may be relevant to a different part of the media now, to television commissioners and editors, but to a young live-comedy audience you're not, really.

I think I found that when I was doing a show on a regular basis and just acting constantly, that was when I was at my happiest.

We used to wrestle every night, 385 times a year. For ten years. 365 days. Never had any holidays off, ever. Holidays were always two-day venues. Two event venues. Afternoon and night.

I haven't been offstage for more than two days since I started doing comedy.

Celebrities are under pressure to perform all the time. You are in front of a camera all the time, and it is difficult to lead a life in the world of glamour.

I have done Emmerdale since I was 12 and there has never been a time when I could just be myself.

If you're not acting, you're not an actor.

As long as I have people's attention, I can't stop. You can't put the public on hold, because they might not be there when you get back. I have a pathological fear of stopping.

In the wrestling industry and the entertainment industry, weekends you never have off.

The thing about theater that always and still kind of makes me edgy is that you work and work and work and work, and then you're just in performance mode, and then you have to just be on; the work is done, and then you just have to do it over and over again, so you're just constantly at that performance level.

I'm basically always on tour.