Performance Quotes

You want to be appreciated for all your work as opposed to one performance, but I'll always be 'that bloke from 'Lock, Stock'.' You've got to embrace it.

Nick Moran
- Work
- Performance
- Embrace
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

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
In later years I never put aside this kind of inquiry, that is, into the modes of thinking and representation embedded in a text, but I asked new questions about ways of writing and the forms and rituals of discourse. I began to look not only at what was stated or declared in a text, but also at what was suggested through expression, through performance.

Natalie Zemon Davis
The good thing about helping an actor create a performance is, you really don't know how you're going to do it. It's a challenge every time you get to the set. That keeps the energy flowing all the time.

Juan Antonio Bayona
From the business point of view—not to overstate it—intellectual property is dead; long live intellectual process. Long live service; long live performance.

Esther Dyson
Only your customers can define quality, because it's meeting your customers' expectations the first time every time. Simply put, it's performance to the standards of the customer.

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

Michelle MacLaren
- Sometimes
- Forget
- Because