top of page
.png){kind=small}
Performance Quotes
"Your performance gets you promoted. It doesn't matter if you're brown, back or white."
7
"When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality."
7
"Denzel Washington invoked confidence. When you have confidence, you can do anything. And that's what happened. I learned about being honest and keeping it true, keeping it true in my performance."
7
"The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment."
7
"Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance."
7
"One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors."
7
"I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun."
7
"The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."
7
"Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational."
7
"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."
7
"This kind of prelude was succeeded by the concerto itself which he executed with a degree of spirit and firmness that no one has ever pretended to equal."
7
"It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England."
7
"When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows."
7
"I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission."
7
"I started off in a small theatre performance company and worked my way into commercials."
7
"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."
7
"I like working with an actor who doesn't do the oneupmanship. One who has no trick and gives a true, honest performance."
7
"The thing that's characteristic of my performance is that I literally do drag the whole studio onto the stage."
7
"The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists."
7
"Debra Winger doesn't let anything interfere with her performance, which is the way it should be."
7
"Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales."
7
"Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really challenging part for me. I'm not critical of the film: I just don't think I gave a very interesting performance."
6
"I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films."
6
"I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance."
6
"I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?"
6
"When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start."
6
"It is strange how your understanding of a play changes. It normally happens after a performance and you suddenly think, 'So that's what that line really means' - it's like a light going on."
6
"From protecting our natural resources to providing maritime security and national defense, the Coast Guard's duties are broad in scope, and the performance of those duties has never been more important."
6
"An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise."
6
"When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity."
6
"A particular shot or way of moving the ball can be a player's personal signature, but efficiency of performance is what wins the game for the team."
6
"The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth."
6
"The candidates before you know that the IFP has set up a system of deployed IFP national and provincial leaders who are not only monitoring the performance of candidates during these elections but will also do so after these elections."
6
"I think these awards are always nice for a player but they also reflect well on the club. It shows that Arsenal's performance have been noted all around the world and it helps by having so many good players around me."
6
"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."
6
"The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive."
6
"What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?"
6
"The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance."
6
"I had a flair for comedy and could give a sustained performance."
6
"No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an incredibly demanding role and I don't think anyone can argue that it was a false performance."
6
"The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event."
6
"Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over."
6
"I think it hurt my performance because I stopped being me. That won't ever happen again."
6
"Nutrition is also a valuable component that can help athletes both protect themselves and improve performance."
6
"I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt."
6
"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."
6
"Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance."
6
"So much depends on the performance, and here you are also tied up in the emotion the game evokes."
6
"The New York Times published the guest list on the front page. The masks were a brilliant concept."
6
bottom of page