Performance Quotes
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When you see a comedian on stage, the best comedians make it feel like a conversation. But it's not. We have very little interest in what an audience has to say during a performance. Being a stand-up comedian, you're an egomaniac to some degree. Everyone wants to hear what you have to say, apparently. That's not how real relationships work.
Hari Kondabolu -
I had this totally impossible dream of being an actress. Trust me, just because I'm lucky enough to be doing this doesn't make any of this less of a pipe dream. And nothing gets my juices flowing like a really great performance. To see someone on stage, I get really excited.
Olivia Thirlby
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If you're going to give people authority and hold them responsible and ultimately accountable for their performance, you've got to get out of the way.
Randy Lerner -
A video taped stage performance is just - you know, it's never gonna be the same as it is if you're sitting there live in the theatre.
Nathan Lane -
My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable... If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there's really not much point in you having been there - or me, for that matter.
Yo-Yo Ma -
Our performance, relatively, is likely to be better in a bear market than in a bull market … in a year when the general market had a substantial advance, I would be well satisfied to match the advance of the averages.
Warren Buffett -
Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Owning equities is an essential part of anyone's portfolio. You just can't ignore it over time. It's going to add the real pop to anyone's overall performance.
Warren Stephens
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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.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi -
I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
Mahesh Babu -
Brie Larson's performance in 'Room' was pretty incredible.
Taron Egerton -
Even though I've won numerous titles and an Olympic gold medal, there are still so many faults in my performance that I can honestly hardly bear to watch the videos back.
Victoria Pendleton -
It's wrong to say that there is no performance in a glamorous role. Even a glam role takes in a lot of effort. There is a fine line between being glamorous and being vulgar; you have to feel comfortable in what you wear.
Rakul Preet Singh -
The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.
Alan Parsons
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So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.
Kate Winslet -
Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.
Samantha Harvey -
I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that.
Washed Out -
Comics, as good as they might be, they didn't know much about performance. There aren't too many comics you could watch for an hour without getting tired. They might have good material, but it's about theater to me.
Andrew Dice Clay -
'Srimanthudu' is a film very close to my heart. It's my first production, and I'm more than happy with its performance at the box office.
Mahesh Babu -
With great artists like Elvis, sometimes the songs weren't the greatest thing about him. When I tried to perform some of the songs, I noticed some of the tunes weren't all that brilliant, but it was the performance that sold them.
Imelda May
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My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.
Sadie Frost -
There is something about the live performance of an orchestra that makes it very different to a film. With a film, you can rewrite it in a way with the material you have, and in rehearsals, you're really trying out different things. In an orchestra, you can't do that. They separate as soon as the performance factor comes into play.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
Traditional performance reviews have passed their sell-by date. Big time. There's research showing that roughly two-thirds of performance appraisals have either no effect - or a negative effect! - on employee performance.
Dan Pink -
You worry just as much about great performance as you do about underperformance.
Mary Callahan Erdoes