Performances Quotes
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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
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The other thing is that when people mention computers - and I'm pretty much the same - they find it hard to comprehend that there's a performance there. They look at it as something that's just been made by a computer but in a way the difference is that when you make a normal film - and I'm simplifying it here - you put on the make-up and you put the scenery in before you start shooting, but with this you still perform in the same way but then you put the make-up on after, along with the costumes and scenery.
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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.
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... 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.
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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.
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Composing for concert performance is a somewhat lonely occupation, but composing a film score is highly collaborative.
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I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.
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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.
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I take the longest to get ready of anyone. I've been going in two hours before the show every performance.
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I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.
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Rested, Refreshed, and Ready to run, the three Rs of peak performance.
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I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.
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Wal-Mart hires average people but squeezes above average performance and results out of them.
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Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.
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Audiences tend to get the performances they deserve.
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Early practice is vital so that performances became totally ingrained and flow from the subconscious.
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There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge.
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As a group of people, New Order acted like a divorcing husband and wife: we couldn’t even be bothered to hate one another any more. We’d simply stopped caring about each other. We played our guts out most nights – I like to think we didn’t let our band politics affect the performances – but as soon as we were offstage all our heart was lost again.
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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.
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There's a big difference in doing a play or doing any project that not a lot of people see and then a project that you know everyone will see. There is more pressure, performance anxiety per se. And then when you do and what you love is really put to test.
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We perform the show for the people that are in the room and then that performance is theirs forever and ever.
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When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
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I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.
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If you're taking performance-enhancing drugs and you get caught, in my mind, you should be banned for life.
