Performances Quotes

We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like watching a grounded skylark.

Arianna, your performance will actually improve if you can commit to not only working hard, but also unplugging, recharging and renewing yourself.

I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or if performances were canceled. It was a fix that I obviously needed.

A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack.

Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control

Every performance is completely its own thing.

I find all of my performances come down to mathematics in a sense - how do you approach the problem of this character? Sometimes I crack that problem, sometimes I don't.

You have actors who begin at a certain young age and there's very little change in their technique and the depth of their performances; they're the same 30 years later.

I had to help to coax the performances and I really enjoyed that extra responsibility.

Usually in the first performances I'm completely panicked. And I pull myself together. By the time you get to the end of the play, you really start to have fun.

We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.

Perceived self-efficacy influences the types of causal attributions people make for their performances

Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

Good performance is about the capacity to focus and concentrate.

A movie has its own fate, which often doesn’t depend on the performances of the director and actors.

If only it were as easy to do the work of others as it is to criticize their performance.

My take is that acting is acting. A performance is a performance. With performance capture, if you don't get the performance on the day, you can't enhance the performance.

The foreign players seem to be reveling in the European games and they've put in some massive performances for us. (on Liverpool)

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.

For me, performance is about forgetting what I'm wearing. Just putting it on and knowing it's right.

We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.

For we direct, perform and witness performances every night – theatre cannot die before the last dream has been dreamt.

What you picture in your mind, your mind will go to work to accomplish. When you change your pictures you automatically change your performance

I've mainly been in dramas, so this is one of my first comedy kind of performances in Cecil B. Demented.

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.

Gene Autry was a pioneering star in the early days of music, radio, film, television and rodeo performances. I am proud to posthumously honor such an inspiring role model.

Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

Jessica Lange in Frances... was dramatic and passionate and one of the strongest performances I've seen a woman do

Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio.

My performances have finally caught up with my ego.

An ounce of performance is worth more than a pound of preachment.

Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

Early practice is vital so that performances became totally ingrained and flow from the subconscious.

You need to be a good screen partner. It's very meaningful to me to be a part of great acting performances.

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised

I performed stand-up because I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. My set was never joke-centric. It was a performance.

My performances may have elements that some may find entertaining, but that's not my main purpose.

Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.

Hopefully, that people could see a progression in my performances because that's how it's always felt to me.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

The importance of music extends well beyond its performance.

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

I think you get the most honest performances when an actor shows up to set with their lines memorized. That's a very important thing that a lot of people seem to forget.

One of the things I love about music is live performance.

The greatest performance improvement of all is when a system goes from not-working to working.

I remind myself: I am the best. I have the best. And I deserve the best. This is one of my personal mantras that I tell myself every morning before auditions, character work, and performances.

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.

If somebody is strong and showing good performances and perfect in the thing you are doing, there are people who want to disturb you.