Performance Quotes
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I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?
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Sometimes when I see a performance that really takes me, I struggle. How can I express this to this person, I want this person to know how I felt. I want to get this across, and it's not very easy.
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When I first thought about becoming Jane Austen I had to forget about the fear, or at least choose something else to focus on because it was becoming paralysing, I couldn't focus. I felt frightened, not so much by her fans' reaction to my performance but that I would be playing someone who I think is a legend, who I respect and admire so much. I didn't want to fail, so I was putting a lot of pressure on myself.
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During any performance, I love to connect with the crowd and hope fans leave my show feeling happy.
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This phenomenal performance is a result of Microsoft's long-term commitment to investment in research and development and focus on developing compelling, innovative products that can emerge as leaders.
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True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.
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It is exciting to have these great musicians perform at a dynamic performance venue like Long Island University's Kumble Theater. I am grateful to the University for providing the central Brooklyn community with access to world-class productions at the Kumble Theater.
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Mistakes can be like ice. If we resist them, we may keep on slipping into a posture of defeat. If we include mistakes in our definition of performance, we are likely to glide through them and appreciate the beauty of the longer run.
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Your success isn’t about you and your performance. It’s about us and how we perceive your performance.
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I've always loved the drama and the creating of a role and performance and all that comes with that, but I then also kind of like to have just the white picket fence life if that makes sense.
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When a director narrates a character, I find it normal to ask questions about the character's background, mood swings, eccentricities, behaviour... I do this to make my performance relatable. Directors who don't know their characters well find it difficult to answer these questions and, hence, find me annoying.
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I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers.
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There is at least one point in the history of any company when you have to change dramatically to rise to the next level of performance. Miss that moment - and you start to decline.
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The team spirit was amazing. The key was our second-half performance. We didn't play as much rugby as we would have liked and we didn't play too smartly in the last five minutes.
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Performance constraints are good for creativity.
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Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies.
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It is very challenging to have a kind of data-driven, performance-oriented culture and to do progressive pedagogy. These things don't naturally, or easily, go together.
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Make peace with the fear of defeat... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.
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Turkey wants to be treated by the same standards as other countries. If you compare us to some other newly accepted EU members our performance, especially in terms of the economy, is much better.
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The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance.
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All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.
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I wanted to be a pro volleyball player, and I fell in love with performance and audience response. The pressure of performing and doing something that I love doing in front of people who were grateful to see it. That relationship sort of worked out to be acting and theatre.
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Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being.
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I have learned from my experiences in this industry that there is absolutely no way to control people's opinions on your performance in your movie. You go out there, promote your film and hope people like the work you did.
