Performances Quotations

Dance every performance as if it were your last.

You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.

Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.

I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.

Boxing is not about your feelings. It's about performance.

I have never taken any substance to enhance my performance.

Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.

The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.

Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.

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

It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

I have a life beyond performance. I love it, and it probably is the better part of my life, but I do have another life.

As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.

Conductors don't suffer, they are part of the performance.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much.

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.

But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.

My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.

One of the things I love about music is live performance.

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.

A powerful performance will transform everyone in the room.

So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.

You can lose in cinema too if you don't put on a good performance.

I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

Let your performance do the thinking.

By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience.

When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.

Proper preparation prevents poor performance.

Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances.

You lose with potential. You win with performance.

I've realized that I can do performances.

My performances have finally caught up with my ego.

Before every performance I feel nervous.

The life of every man is an endlessly repeated performance of the life of man.

The script and the performances and the style all clicked.

Arianna, your performance will actually improve if you can commit to not only working hard, but also unplugging, recharging and renewing yourself.

I couldn't worry about whether I`m gonna make it onstage or not. You can't. You just gotta do it. And if you do, you do, and if you don't, you don't, and then something else happens. That's the point of the live performance.

I've always thought if you watch the performance and you don't know about the person, then you only see the performance.

Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it.

The best performances, are those that can be performed once.

...writing is not a performance but a generosity.

I've always seemed to have my best performances when I'm under the most pressure.

PR is performance recognition

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

For me, performance is about forgetting what I'm wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it's right.

I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.

We all have levels of performance.

When performance exceeds ambition, the overlap is called success.

Physicality is the basis of performance.

Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.

An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance.

An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance

Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art.

Your level of performance matches your dominant self image.

Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

You can't really watch a theater performance by yourself. You can watch a movie by yourself, though.

When I see Almunia's performances, I get angry and have to make a fist in my pocket

We have a no puke rule. The purpose is performance, not puking.

I didnt develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.

My relationship with shoes has always been linked to shoes, women, women in their shoes and performance.

In all we do we must cultivate faith. Increased faith is the touchstone to improved church performance.

I'm not impressed by your performance.

You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.

Negative feedback effected amplifier performance significantly.

I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film

I've always enjoyed and loved playing live. I relish and cherish it more than anything else because you never know what the performance is going to be.

People tend to remember my performances, not me.

Peak performance is meditation in motion.

I'm not a performance artist or any of that, I'm not out to please anyone. Just me.

Good acting is consistency of performance.

I'm one of these people who would rather show you than tell you through the performance.

Leadership Is Performance. You Have To Be Conscious Of Your Behavior, Because Everyone Else Is.