Performances Quotes
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When I go onstage, I'm going to work ...I feel like my performance is about an emotional connection. I want to connect with people, whether it's like a romantic song or a happy song.
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I like the energy of live performance.
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In any racing engine, the nearer you are to it disintegrating, the better it's performance will be
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Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation
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Time is running out. We don't have any points to give to anyone. We will need some great performances from everyone.
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So the first thing I learned about how to get superior performance is not to buy stocks that are near their lows, but to buy stocks that are coming out of broad bases and beginning to make new highs.
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Mary Kay knew that when you put people first and then surround them with processes and disciplines that recognize their efforts, performance will soar.
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People have mistaken my break, I took a break from competition, it was because of mental problems, and because I was not agreeing with Performance Enhancing Drugs. I put the things on pause for a while, but I didn't retire.
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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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Trust is a powerful accelerator to performance and when trust goes up, speed also goes up while cost comes down - producing what we call a trust dividend.
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Don't watch people's individual performances. Watch the energy that's being passed between them, and then you'll see if the scene is really working or if the actors are really doing their job. If they're playing with the energy that's between them, they're not just acting in their own little bubble.
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I stand or fall in my profession by the public's judgement of my performances. No amount of publicity can dampen a good one or gloss over a bad one.
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Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.
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Spirituality is invisible. Never forget that. If you can see it, if it's dressed in funny robes, if it's up there to be looked at, if it's making a big performance of itself, it is not spirituality. It is ego.
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Before the whole music business was calibrated around the selling of records. I never could have imagined that live performance would become kind of a vortex of the business. It's such a seismic shift really.
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Climbing does not mean just competition and performance. It has other qualities that are important: going on trips, meeting people, seeing other cultures.
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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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A big fear of working with an actor that's never been a lead in a film before is that you're going to have to work really hard to pull a performance out of her.
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I try to stay out of the spotlight as much as humanly possible, because I think that when actors, whether or not they've chosen it or it has been thrust upon them, are living very public lives, it affects your ability to get lost in their performances.
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For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.
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Comedians don`t get Oscars, so I gave up on that a long time ago. And I can`t really speak about the Oscar-worthiness of my own performance.
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Do not waste a minute - not a second - in trying to demonstrate to others the merits of your performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it.
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I am always really buzzed after each performance, and at around one in the morning, Ill hit a brick wall and need to sleep.
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Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.
