Performance Quotes

• I was so mad I wasn't sitting at the stadium watching it Prince' 2007 Super Bowl performance in person. So when Prince came back to the box where I would have been after he performed, he said to my makeup artist, "Where's Stevie?" She said, "She's sick, and she was told by our manager that she would have to walk across the football field when the game was over in the mud and try to find a limo, so she made the decision that she couldn't do that." He was not happy that I wasn't there, and now today I'm not happy about it because I should have gone and I should have walked in that mud for him.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Happy
  • Sick
  • Makeup

• I think the best compliment you can receive is not, 'Oh, that was really funny,' but, 'Is that the first time you said that?' It's something that you've said a thousand times, but if somebody says to you, 'Oh my God, is that the first time you've done that?' you know that performance was where you wanted it.

  

  Erik Griffin
  • Something
  • Compliment
  • Somebody

• In the theater, I've found that, in general, reaction and laughter come easier at an evening performance, when the audience is more inclined to forget its troubles. Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go.

  

  Beatrice Lillie
  • Laughter
  • Theater
  • Customers

• I firmly believe that knowing too much too soon can color your performance in a not good way. I just don't want to know until I need to know. And then you just roll with it.

  

  Joshua Morrow
  • Know
  • Performance
  • Roll

• I don't eat for pleasure; I eat for performance.

  

  Bobby Lashley
  • Pleasure
  • Performance
  • Eat

• Defeat is a wonderful experience if it motivates you to never forget you're only as good as your last performance.

  

  Paul Heyman
  • Forget
  • Performance
  • Defeat

• It appears to be a quite general principle that, whenever there is a randomized way of doing something, then there is a nonrandomized way that delivers better performance but requires more thought.

  

  Edwin Thompson Jaynes
  • Performance
  • Delivers

• Design patterns should not be applied indiscriminately. Often they achieve flexibility and variability by introducing additional levels of indirection, and that can complicate a design and/or cost you some performance. A design pattern should only be applied when the flexibility it affords is actually needed.

  

  Erich Gamma
  • Performance
  • Patterns
  • Complicate

• The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Performance
  • Improve
  • Best Way

• The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Performance
  • Develop
  • Old Age

• Once you recognize that all documentaries are performance, it's not a matter of 'if' they should be performance. They are performance, and they are performance precisely where people are playing themselves.

  

  Joshua Oppenheimer
  • Playing
  • Performance
  • Documentaries

• 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.

  

  Benjamin Zander
  • Beauty
  • Mistakes
  • Defeat

• Make peace with the fear of defeat... Fear holds you back from putting forth your best performance.

  

  Brian Stann
  • Fear
  • Peace
  • Performance

• We had a chance to do it, but obviously, we didn't. We've got another chance next week, and hopefully, we'll do a better performance.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Chance
  • Week
  • Performance

• In programming when you're making a change you have to know all the affected places, and you have to be able to model in your head what the performance impact will be.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Change
  • Performance
  • Programming

• Among the many lessons that merge from the geologic record, perhaps the most sobering is that in life, as in mutual funds, past performance is no guarantee of future results.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Record
  • Results
  • Geological

• Sometimes I forget to say 'cut' because I am so lost in the performance.

  

  Michelle MacLaren
  • Sometimes
  • Forget
  • Because

• The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people.

  

  Ethel Wilson
  • Character
  • Performance
  • Geography

• A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.

  

  Roberta Smith
  • Something
  • Certain
  • Improvisational

• Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Nature
  • Ballet
  • Sense Of Ritual

• Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I see a moment that surprise me and I go, "Oh, that's not bad. That was nice."

  

  James Cromwell
  • Film
  • Moment
  • Performance

• A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.

  

  Briana Scurry
  • Practice
  • Competition
  • Champion

• Onstage, I enjoy the thrill of live performance - there is no substitute for that rush. On camera I enjoy the crafting of a scene, the widespread creative marksmanship happening all around you for every second of footage. Onstage you can suddenly feel solitary, like it's all on your shoulders, while on camera you feel like there are so many people working with you on every shot. Those are each unique and gratifying challenges.

  

  Bryce Pinkham
  • Scene
  • Camera
  • Onstage

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

  

  Ethel Merman
  • Control
  • Films
  • Delivering

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