Performances Quotes
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You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.
Rita Moreno -
The hardest scene for me is always the scene when I'm dealing with performances, when I'm actually looking at the guys and hoping that I'm covering it in the right way and that I'm handling it in the right way.
Tony Scott
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Sometimes colleagues in performance are absolutely astonishing.
Stephen Sondheim -
... All the drivers that started the replace-tape-with-disk movement in the first place - reliability, performance, portability and off-site data movement - are now liabilities in a disk only strategy.
George Arthur Crump -
People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.
Cate Blanchett -
You're never in control. That - that is the greatest fallacy of the - you know, there's over 200 people that it requires to make a film. And there's people who are in control of how you look, what your performance is, what takes are used, what - you're only in control of how you say no.
Sandra Bullock -
This Thursday, Barack Obama is gonna give his acceptance speech, and reportedly it's going to include performances by Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Yeah. And they say Obama's not black enough!
Conan O'Brien -
I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.
Jonny Lee Miller
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It was difficult to skate at the end after so many strong performances and I just took it one step at a time. I stayed strong and I believed in myself.
Sasha Cohen -
I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.
Bob Gibson -
We perform the show for the people that are in the room and then that performance is theirs forever and ever.
Michael Urie -
My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai Ambani... may I talk to Nita?' I said, 'It's a wrong number' and put down the phone. Then he called again... and I said, 'If you're Dhirubhai Ambani, then I'm Elizabeth Taylor.'
Nita Ambani -
Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.
William P. Perry -
I perform regularly with a theater company called Outside the Wire who take performances of Greek tragedy to American-military audiences around the world to create discussion about PTSD and soldier suicide. It's one of the greatest things I've ever been asked to do as an actor.
Bryce Pinkham
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Advertising spending continues to be somewhat choppy in our markets, but we do not view December's results as indicative of a trend in advertising performance going forward.
Gary Pruitt -
I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.
Will Chase -
Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation
Brian Tracy -
You know. I'll try anything. I'll do anything. I'll explore. Try different takes. All that kind of stuff to do sometimes, to do good performances, but always conducive to having a good time creatively.
Colin Farrell -
Although humans today remain more capable than machines for many tasks, by 2030 machine capabilities will have increased to the point that humans will have become the weakest component in a wide array of systems and processes. Humans and machines will need to become far more closely coupled, through improved human-machine interfaces and by direct augmentation of human performance
Werner J. A. Dahm -
Put more frankly, they should keep they mouths shut and concentrate on their performances.
Oliver Bierhoff
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That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen to some utterly perfect performance of an utterly perfect piece while I'm driving, I might want to close my eyes and die right then and there. But listening to the D major, I can feel the limits of what humans are capable of - that a certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. And personally I find that encouraging.
Haruki Murakami -
I do an improv show on Sunday where we have a class, and then afterwards we go and do a live performance in front of an audience.
Nolan Gould -
Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.
David Devant -
I love the sound of the distant bugle call in the countryside in early morning I love to be pushed in busy crowds I love the sound of gongs and trumpets along the streets I love circus performances I even wish to die in this moment of glorious encounter.
Ai Qing