Performance Quotes
-
On the eve of the strike, we saw very, very poor performance.
-
I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.
-
Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
-
The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
-
Performance stands out like a ton of diamonds. Nonperformance can always be explained away.
-
I'm very motivated by the occasional creative payoff that comes when something goes really well, be it a song, a recording or performance. The payoff is enormous - when you get it. Most of the time, though, I'm filled with self-loathing and general frustration at the limitations I have as a musician.
-
Luckily, I work for a company that promotes on performance.
-
The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.
-
I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.
-
I look at old performance videos now, and it's really funny - I thought I was such a gangster!
-
I can't imagine a successful comedy movie without a successful comedy performance at the heart of it.
-
An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
-
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.
-
For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.
-
I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.
-
I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
-
When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
-
Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
-
I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
-
During the songs, you transcend yourself. The best way to be in the performance is to be without pause and be essentially in the moment, in that moment of expression.
-
Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
-
I wasn't happy with my performance at the World Championships in Daegu. I had an unbelievable race in the heats, but misjudged the semi and finished last.
-
A stock market index helps investors track the performance of a group of stocks. NRDC worked with FTSE to develop comprehensive and transparent methodologies that screen out companies linked to owning, exploring, or extracting fossil fuels.
-
I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
