Performances Quotes

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

There are two or three performances in your life that are absolutely on, where all the planets are lined up for you and you feel you're invincible.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

The importance of music extends well beyond its performance.

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

When you try hard to do your best, the effect on your performance is often to jinx it.

I do love old horror, everytime I watch Rosemary's Baby the performances just get richer and richer and more multi-layered, and I see images that are just so politically outrageous. I love it all.

Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.

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.

The power to distinguish between person and performance and to communicate intrinsic worth flows naturally out of our own sense of intrinsic worth.

Trust is the one thing that affects everything else you're doing. It's a performance multiplier which takes your trajectory upwards, for every activity you engage in, from strategy to execution.

I care about making music and I care about creating experiences for my fans with my music and my videos and my 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.

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

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

When your image improves, your performance improves.

I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience.

I think there are a lot of celebrities who put on a performance on camera.

I got to focus on my performance - learning how to perform is something I've been working on both personally and professionally.

I want to touch the world through my performances on screen but also off screen.

A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.

Performances will determine who actually ends up being the eighth-inning guy.

An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance.

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'

Rapturous and full bodied performance.

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

Walk down Forest Ave to Joey's Pizza like we used to do after performances, which doesn't exist anymore. We had a sense of community [in the school band].

The Kobe 8 is about enhanced performance. It's the most comfortable shoe I have worn. It's simplistic but has an edge to it.

Good performance is about what you take in, not what you put out.

A performance is a conversation between you and an audience.

Briggsy's performances down the years have been pure magic. If they could bottle his ability and sell if at drama schools they'd make a fortune.

I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

You mustn't judge a politician by talk. You have to judge them by performance.

I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

I do everything in the third person. Performance is about being someone else.

Critique the performance, and respect the hard work put in.

Les trois quarts de nos exercices intellectuels ne sont plus que broderies sur le vide. Three quarters of our intellectual performances are no more than decorations over a void.

I am trying hard to better my performances every match.

It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance.

Animal abusers are not the only culprits - the consumers are the biggest abusers! As long as buyers, users, attendees at animal performances, etc., keep using, abusers keep abusing!!!

I never considered myself a performance artist.

So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by.

Gareth [Edwards] was very open to just shaping the performances and the scenes to fit what was happening with the actors and the storytelling that was emerging.

I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.

I used to be very controlling with visuals and editing, and I would pretty much craft the performances; now I have learned to trust the material and the actors.

It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.

Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction.

I am a bit evangelical, I know, but performance-capture is still misunderstood.