top of page
"I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Performance quotes

"I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance."

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

"The one that sang, old Janine, was always whispering into the g***** microphone before she sang. She'd say, 'And now we like to geeve you our impression of Vooly Voo Fransay. Eet ees the story of leetle Fransh girl who comes to a beeg ceety, just like New York, and falls een love wees a leetle boy from Brookleen. We hope you like eet.' Then, when she was all done whispering and being cute as hell, she'd sing some dopey song, half in English and half in French, and drive all the phonies in the place mad with joy."

"Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked."

"One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service."

"I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials."

"It is essential that we put an end to steroid abuse and set a better example for aspiring young athletes to follow, so that some day, when they make it in the All Star Game, it will be because of their own natural talents, and not because of a performance enhancing product."

"When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted."

"At CBS, I'm in your house. I'm mindful of that. When I do standup, you're in my home and I can say what I want to."

"I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive."
Explore more quotes by Jane Byrne

"If all of us would require the same level of performance from ourselves as we expect from government, this city will forever be the city that works."

"For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods."

"In the housing projects, people talked of ways to reduce crime, relieve overcrowding, and they were good ideas that we plan to study, and possibly implement."

"In the days and months I spent walking through the various communities of this city, I found that Chicago did not work for everyone, however."

"The cooperation of government at its different levels is important and can only be achieved as long as the people of Chicago are directly involved in our efforts and supportive of our goals."

"But always I was a private citizen whose activities in government or political party were appointive."

"I am here before you tonight to dedicate this administration to bringing a new renaissance of neighborhood life and community spirit, a renewal of confidence in the future of our city and a revival of opportunity for all Chicago."

"Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation."
bottom of page